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,...
The Responsibility to Protect in Darfur: From Forgotten Conflict to Global Cause and Back
1st Edition
By David Lanz
May 31, 2023
This book analyzes the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the context of the conflict in Darfur, using detailed empirical evidence.The volume traces Darfur’s evolution from forgotten conflict to a major global cause and back to obscurity. The emergence of a far-reaching international response to ...
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 ...
Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Contestation and Consolidation
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles T. Hunt, Phil Orchard
September 30, 2021
This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and contestation.The book focuses on how the R2P doctrine has been both consolidated and contested along three dimensions, regarding its meaning, status and ...
Ethics, Obligation, and the Responsibility to Protect: Contesting the Global Power Relations of Accountability
1st Edition
By Mark Busser
December 18, 2020
This book critically examines arguments about ‘obligation’ and ‘responsibility’ in relation to the responsibility to protect (R2P) and situates it within wider moral argumentation concerning the role of culpability, answerability, and human rights in international affairs.It discusses the ways in ...
The Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court: Protection and Prosecution in Kenya
1st Edition
By Serena Sharma
August 14, 2020
This book provides an account of how the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) were applied in Kenya. In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election on 27 December 2007, Kenya descended into its worst crisis since independence. The 2007-08 post-election ...
Moral Responsibility, Statecraft and Humanitarian Intervention: The US Response to Rwanda, Darfur, and Libya
1st Edition
By Cathinka Vik
June 30, 2020
This book explores the moral complexity of statecraft in the context of decision-making on armed intervention in the post-Cold War era. This book adds to the debate on humanitarian intervention by analyzing the moral complexity of statecraft when confronted with situations of severe human rights ...