Atrocity Prevention and Response
Challenges for R2P
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12960733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gareth Evans (0000-0002-5646-2576, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 325-332 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Responsibility to Protect (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-984X • E-ISSN: 1875-9858 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1875984x-20240017 |
| OpenAlex | W4402018467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
While longstanding critiques of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a Western interventionist doctrine are well known, this intervention argues that a new form of backlash politics to the R2P is emerging from key Western states that have long been its strongest advocates and supporters. This intervention argues that this trend is disconcerting in that it risks returning to an international politics of complacency whereby states are no longer willing to acknowledge or accept responsibility to assist populations from mass atrocities occurring within the borders of a foreign state. Two strategies are advocated to counter this trend among governments. First, is to emphasise the successes as well as acknowledge the failures of R2P. Second, to clearly articulate how it is in every country’s own national interest to respond decently to conscience-shocking atrocity crimes occurring elsewhere
Criminology · Human rights · International law · Political science · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |