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The responsibility to protect : a defense
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellamy, Alex J, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Responsibility to protect (International law)--Prevention.
- Responsibility to protect (International law).
- Humanitarian intervention.
- Security, International.
- Atrocities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- responsibility to protect
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle is the international community's major response to the problem of genocide and mass atrocities. Although far from perfect, this book argues that R2P offers the best chance we have of building an international community that works to prevent these crimes and protect vulnerable populations.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A defense of R2P
- Atrocities in our time
- Legacies of empire, failures of will
- The promise of R2P
- The R2P imperative
- Much ado about nothing?
- A trojan horse?
- Double standards?
- Balancing humanitarian priorities
- Diplomacy, peacekeeping, and the distractions of protection
- Protecting responsibly.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 24, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-177326-3
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