The Normative Status of the Responsibility to Protect after Libya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12960817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie-Eve Loiselle (0000-0002-5818-9163, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-341 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| 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-00503005 |
| OpenAlex | W1994794395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
The responsibility to protect concept has evolved rapidly in the last decade but its normative and legal status is still disputed. This paper assesses the degree of recognition the concept has attracted since its inception and the significance of resolutions 1970 and 1973 for the transformation of the responsibility to protect into a new norm of customary international law. It argues that despite claims about the centrality of the concept in the decision to intervene in Libya, the language of both resolutions, and the statements made by members of the Security Council surrounding their adoption, indicate that member states did not consider that they were legally bound to protect the population of Libya. Consequently, the intervention in Libya has not promoted the development of a legal obligation upon the international community to protect the world’s populations against gross violations of human rights
Customary international law · Human rights · International community · International law · Law and economics · Norm (philosophy · Normative · Obligation · Political science · Politics · Population · Public international law · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |