This book explores the extent to which Responsibility to Protect shifts our understanding of both the potential and practice of international law.

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sove

This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’. The idea that the international community has a re

'The Responsibility to Protect' provides a comprehensive view on how this contemporary principle has developed and analyzes how to best apply it to current huma