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.
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 ...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...