The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. Anne Orford situates the responsibility to protect' concept in a wider historical and jurisprudential context, demonstrating that the appeal to protection as the basis for de facto authority has emerged at times of civil war or revolution the protestant revolutions of early modern Europe, the bourgeois and communist revolutions of the following centuries...
The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about co...
