Soft power through Responsibility to Protect: a small state's foreign policy strategy : a study of Norwegian foreign policy and R2P in the context of the civil wars in Libya and Syria
Journal: Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)
Year: 2015

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate in what way the normative principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is reflected in Norwegian foreign policy. It is also an aim of this thesis to look at how the different actors, internal and external to Norway, affect foreign policy behaviour. The nature of the study is qualitative, and its data are gathered from document analysis from the government, media and civil society. The research has been approached through a theoretical framework based