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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.

19 Series Titles


International Responsibility and Grave Humanitarian Crises Collective Provision for Human Security

International Responsibility and Grave Humanitarian Crises: Collective Provision for Human Security

1st Edition

By Hannes Peltonen
May 18, 2017

This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing. The idea of collective responsibility highlights how we would like to see the global level primarily as ...

International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria

International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect: The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria

1st Edition

Edited By Daniel Silander, Don Wallace
February 01, 2017

This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and actual capability international institutions have to ...

UN Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect

UN Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect

1st Edition

By Annie Herro
June 28, 2016

This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect the establishment of this service in both theory and practice. The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led ...

Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect A Provisional Duty

Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect: A Provisional Duty

1st Edition

By Heather Roff
November 10, 2014

This book provides an innovative contribution to the study of the Responsibility to Protect and Kantian political theory. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has been heralded as the new international security norm to ensure the protection of peoples against genocide, ethnic cleansing, war...

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Security and Human Rights

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Security and Human Rights

1st Edition

By Cristina Badescu
March 20, 2012

This book explores attempts to develop a more acceptable account of the principles and mechanisms associated with humanitarian intervention, which has become known as the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P). Cases of genocide and mass violence have raised endless debates about the theory and ...

Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect From Words to Deeds

Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect: From Words to Deeds

1st Edition

By Alex J. Bellamy
January 12, 2011

This book provides an in-depth introduction to, and analysis of, the issues relating to the implementation of the recent Responsibility to Protect principle in international relations The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has come a long way in a short space of time. It was endorsed by the General ...

The Responsibility to Protect Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics

The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics

1st Edition

By Ramesh Thakur
January 12, 2011

This volume is a collection of the key writings of Professor Ramesh Thakur on norms and laws regulating the international use of force. The adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle by world leaders assembled at the UN summit in 2005 is widely acknowledged to represent one of the ...

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