Diffusion of Human Rights Norms from the Viewpoint of IR Theories; Case Study: Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

This paper aims to investigate the diffusion of Human Rights Norms from the Viewpoint of IR Theories with Case Study of Responsibility to protect doctrine. It seems that there are five main mechanisms for Diffusion of Human Rights Norms: "Coercion" to mean legal and physical imposition, "instrumental rationality "refers to the impact on utility calculations, "imitation" to mean behavior ideas and norms use of peers for Problem solving and to enhance legitimacy, "normative rationality" refers to the response to social (not material) pressures and "persuasion" to mean non-coercive discursive interventions to promote mutual understanding and normative changes. Various documents related to the doctrine of "responsibility to protect" also showed that most of Human rights regimes emphasize on Persuasive, voluntary and Preventive mechanisms that based on internalization of Human Rights Norms for national, regional and international crisis management and this regimes less Focus on coercive mechanisms in the early stages of the crisis.