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 practice of humanitarian intervention to save innocent lives. Since the humanitarian tragedies in Rwanda, Burundi, Bosnia, Kosovo and elsewhere, states have begun advocating a right to undertake interventions to stop mass violations of human rights from occurring. Their central concern...
This book explores attempts to develop a more acceptable account of the principles and mechanisms associated with humanitarian intervention, which ...
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 great normative advances in international politics since 1945. The author has been involved in this shift from the dominant norm of non-intervention to R2P as an actor, public intellectual and academic and has been a key thinker in this process. These essays represent the author's...
This volume is a collection of the key writings of Professor Ramesh Thakur on norms and laws regulating the international use of force.
This volume is about the issues and challenges facing the implementation of the Responsibility To Protect (R2P) principle in the case of Sri Lanka, where the Tamil Tigers have been fighting to create a separate state. It addresses the political, legal and practical challenges that such possible implementation could confront.
This volume is about the issues and challenges facing the implementation of the Responsibility To Protect (R2P) principle in the case of Sri Lanka, wh...
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 because of how quickly the concept secured its privileged place in the pantheon of ideas and concerns in international affairs, many fundamental questions remain concerning its origins, its conceptual contents, and its relevance to actual cases of mass atrocity. This book seeks to explore...
This book explores conceptual and operational questions regarding the development and implementation of the Responsibility to Protect.
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. The analysis is based on the assumption that the R2P could be regarded as a consolidated norm if it were applied consistently when genocide and other mass atrocities occur; and if international responses routinely conformed to the core principles inherent in the R2P: seeking government...
This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society.
