Responsibility to protect : the global effort to end mass atrocities
Alex J. Bellamy
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2009.
- xiv, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Sovereignty and human rights -- The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty -- The 2005 World Summit -- Prevention -- Reaction -- Rebuilding.
This work charts the emergence of the international principle of 'Responsibility to Protect', from its origins in a doctrine of sovereignty as responsibility through debates about the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention and the findings of a prominent international commission.
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Humanitarian intervention International relations Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects International relations--Moral and ethical aspects Peace-building--International cooperation