Soğuk Savaş Sonrası Dönemde NATO’nun Dönüşüm Süreci ve Koruma Sorumluğunun Normatif Gelişimi: Konstrüktivist Bir Analiz
The Transformation Process of NATO in the Post-Cold War Era and the Normative Development of the Responsibility to Protect: A Constructivist Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The structural change in the international system in the post-Cold War period has caused NATO to transform both institutionally and functionally. Requiring a dynamic adaptation to the changing conditions of the international system, this comprehensive and ongoing transformation process has not only affected NATO but also brought about certain consequences at the international system level, particularly in the reconstruction and the transformation of ideational and normative structures. This article aims to examine the relationship between NATO’s transformation and the development processes of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine within the framework of Constructivist theory. By utilizing the theoretical perspective offered by Constructivism, it argues that NATO’s humanitarian interventions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Libya—carried out in parallel with its transformation process—have contributed to the construction of international social structures by influencing the normative development of the Responsibility to Protect concept. As a result of the analysis, it concludes that NATO, as a regional actor, is an international organization that has the potential to produce norms not only within itself but also at the system level.

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