The Responsibility to Protect at 15
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4035530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ramesh Thakur (0000-0002-2441-8108, Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the Crawford School of Public Policy; Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 415-434 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2346.12557 |
| OpenAlex | W2291833683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
In the fifteen years since the publication of the report ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, there has been a burgeoning literature on all aspects of R2P. This review article focuses on five issues. First, it revisits the shift from ‘humanitarian intervention’ to R2P as the key innovation in 2001, highlighting the political, conceptual, normative, procedural and operational differences between the two. Second, it examines the state of knowledge regarding the causes of atrocities; the institutional vulnerabilities and points of resilience; the pathways from simmering animosities to mass killings; the indicators and precursors; and the most effective preventive and response mechanisms. Third, it reviews the unsatisfactory state of R2P implementation. Fourth, it discusses the main R2P actors, from international organizations and key groups of states to individuals. Finally, it addresses the continuing scepticism about R2P, in that it does not resolve all the dilemmas of how outsiders can provide timely, decisive and effective assistance to any group in need of protection
Commission · Humanitarian intervention · International law · International relations · Intervention (counseling) · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Responsibility to Protect · Skepticism · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Public Administration
The Practice, Pitfalls, and Prospects of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa
The Reduction of Mass Atrocity Crimes in East Asia
Security Identities and ‘No More, No Less’ Operations
The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights
The Responsibility to Protect and the Use of Force
Cui prodest? Italy’s questionable involvement in multilateral military operations amid ethical concerns and national interest
The 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
No future for Libya with Gaddafi”
Norm Robustness and the Responsibility to Protect
Coopération internationale et intervention humanitaire
British Parliament as Center for Making Foreign Policy Decisions during Syrian Crisis (2011—2015)
The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect
Global assemblage of the Responsibility to Protect
Resisting securitized and militarized understandings of protection
Exploring the UK's Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention
Norm Complexity and Contestation
Is R2P still controversial? Continuity and change in the debate on ‘humanitarian intervention’
International Law and Humanitarian Intervention in the Syrian Civil War
Norm modification and the responsibility to protect
The promises and perils of subsidiarity in global governance
The doctrine of the ‘responsibility to protect’ as a practice of political exceptionalism
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |