This volume explores the development and application of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which - according to its supporters - has evolved into a new type of responsive norm regarding how the international community should react to serious and deliberate human rights violations.
List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: State versus Human Security: The Great Debate; Chapter 3: Responsibility: Protection and Prevention; Chapter 4: State Responsibility, Human Security and International Law; Chapter 5: Promoting Democratic Norms for Protection and Prevention Libya: Moving Principle into Action?; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Appendix I: S/RES/1970 United Nations Resolution 1970 on Africa (Including Annexes I-II); Appendix II: S/RES/1973 United Nations Resolution 1973 on the Situation in Libya (Excluding Annexes I-II); Notes; Bibliography; Index
John Janzekovic is a lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Daniel Silander is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden.