Past, ongoing, and impending humanitarian crises including those in Rwanda, Kosovo, Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria mean that dizzyingly difficult questions around the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention (and the so-called Responsibility to Protect ) have, alas, never been more topical. Now, addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, Routledge announces a new title in its Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies series. Edited by Alex Bellamy, Director of the...
Past, ongoing, and impending humanitarian crises including those in Rwanda, Kosovo, Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria mean that dizzyingly diffi...
East Asia, until recently a boiling pot of massacre and blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around eighty percent of the world's mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it accounted for less than five percent. This book explains East Asia's 'other' miracle and asks whether it is merely a temporary blip in the historical cycle or the dawning of a new, and more peaceful, era for the region. It argues that the decline of mass atrocities in East Asia resulted from four interconnected factors:...
East Asia, until recently a boiling pot of massacre and blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had ac...
In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN s Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle. As often as not, however, R2P has failed to translate into decisive action.
In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN s Responsibility to Pro...
