Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
About the Book Series
This book series aims to gather the best new thinking about the Responsibility to Protect into a core set of volumes that provides a definitive account of the principle, its implementation, and role in crises, reflecting a plurality of views and regional perspectives.
Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect: A Transitional Cosmopolitan Approach
1st Edition
By Richard Illingworth
April 14, 2025
This book provides a systematic analysis of reform measures aimed at strengthening the implementation of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) doctrine, utilising a cosmopolitan lens. In 2005, member states of the United Nations (UN) accepted a ‘Responsibility to Protect’ against four mass atrocity...
Covid-19 and Atrocity Prevention in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Noel M. Morada, Mely Caballero-Anthony
February 19, 2025
This edited volume examines the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peoples and states in East Asia. The book brings together selected case studies in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asian region that analyse how states in the region have responded to the pandemic and its ...
ASEAN and the Responsibility to Protect: An Ambivalent Relationship
1st Edition
By Thida Chanthima Neth
November 13, 2024
This book adopts a sociolegal and interdisciplinary approach to examine how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been understood within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Historically, the international community has struggled to effectively address humanitarian crises worldwide...
Reconstructing the Responsibility to Protect: From Humanitarian Intervention to Human Security
1st Edition
By Michael J. Butler
November 11, 2024
This book revisits and interrogates the evolution of the Responsibility to Protect in search of the root cause of R2P’s failure to date. Employing a critical constructivist lens throughout, the book locates the origin of that apparent failure in the close association of R2P with humanitarian ...
Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect: The Politics of Norm Circulation
1st Edition
By Sarka Kolmasova
August 26, 2024
This book contributes to existing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) by demonstrating new advocacy strategies and the greater interconnectedness of various R2P proponents. In 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution on R2P, which reaffirmed its commitment from the 2005 ...
Regional Approaches to the Responsibility to Protect: Lessons from Europe and West Africa
1st Edition
By Jochem Rietveld
August 26, 2024
This book studies regional approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Europe and West Africa. The work assesses how and to what extent the European Union (EU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have internalised the norm, both generally, in institutions, policies,...
Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence: UN Discourses and Practices in Fragile States
1st Edition
By Timo Kivimäki
January 09, 2023
This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping. Analysing statistics of state fragility and fatalities of violence, it reveals that the UN has managed ...
Reviewing the Responsibility to Protect: Origins, Implementation and Controversies
1st Edition
By Ramesh Thakur
February 25, 2020
This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm. The book offers a comprehensive yet accessible review of the origins, evolution, advances and shortcomings of the R2P principle. A ...
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: A Future Agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By Cecilia Jacob, Martin Mennecke
September 25, 2019
This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyzes case studies regarding the implementation of this important global norm. The volume analyzes this process at international, regional and local levels, and identifies an urgent need to progress from ...
Evaluating the Responsibility to Protect: Mass Atrocity Prevention as a Consolidating Norm in International Society
1st Edition
By Noële Crossley
August 23, 2018
This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society. A consolidated norm in international society is defined here as a regularised pattern of behaviour that is widely accepted as appropriate within a given social context. ...
International Organizations and The Rise of ISIL: Global Responses to Human Security Threats
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Silander, Don Wallace, John Janzekovic
January 24, 2018
This book seeks to understand the obligations of the international community to promote and protect state and human security in situations of international humanitarian crises. In Iraq and Syria, as well as in neighbouring states, the rise of ISIL has raised serious state and human security ...
Reassessing the Responsibility to Protect: Conceptual and Operational Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Brett R. O'Bannon
June 30, 2017
This book explores conceptual and operational questions regarding the development and implementation of the Responsibility to Protect. The mass atrocity norm known as the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has enjoyed meteoric success since the concept was introduced in 2001. But perhaps precisely ...