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The responsibility to protect : rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention / Aidan Hehir.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: ix, 301 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230289185
  • 9780230289185
  • 0230289177
  • 9780230289178
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.584 23
LOC classification:
  • KZ4082 .H44 2012
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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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