1. Introduction 2. An Analytical Framework for Assessing Norms, Regional Organisations, and the Responsibility to Protect 3. Contextual Analysis: Regional Approaches to Security, Sovereignty and Human Rights 4. The EU and R2P: From Public Endorsements to Implementation? 5. ECOWAS and R2P: West African Inspirations of a Global Norm 6. Conclusion
Jochem Rietveld is Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, UK, and holds a PhD in International Relations and Comparative Regionalism from LUISS Guido Carli, Italy/University of Warwick, UK.