The responsibility to protect: rhetoric, reality and 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 systematicassessment 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 INDICE: 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 .Prevention: The Last Refuge of the Unimaginative? .Political Will and Non-Intervention.PART II: BEYONE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT .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.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28917-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 13/04/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés