The responsibility to protect : rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention / Aidan Hehir.
Material type: TextPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: ix, 301 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0230289185
- 9780230289185
- 0230289177
- 9780230289178
- 341.584 23
- KZ4082 .H44 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 341.584 HEH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A517458B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.
Introduction: Rhetoric and Reality -- PART I: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: SOUND AND FURY...? The Evolution of the Responsibility to Protect ; The Responsibility to Protect, Authority and International Law ; The Responsibility to Prevent: The Last Refuge of the Unimaginative? ; Political Will and Non-Intervention -- PART II: BEYOND R2P. In Defence of Humanitarian Intervention and the Potential of International Law ; Understanding the Tension between Sovereignty and Intervention ; Grasping the Nettle: The Parameters of Viable Reform ; Conclusion: The Future of Humanitarian Intervention.
"The notion of a responsibility to protect (R2P) has come to dominate debates about humanitarian intervention. This important new book provides a systematic assessment of its evolution and gives a careful critique of its limits in mapping out alternative avenues for the prevention of - and responses to - humanitarian crises." -- Publisher's website.
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