1st Edition
Reassessing the Responsibility to Protect Conceptual and Operational Challenges
Introduction, Brett O’Bannon 1. The Responsibility to Protect and the Limits of International Authority, Anne Orford 2. Understanding the Gap between the Promise and the Reality of ‘The Responsibility to Protect’, David Chandler 3. The Rise and Fall (and Supposed Rise Again) of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a Norm of International Law: R2P in the Human Rights Landscape, Jeremy Sarkin 4. Africa: Is there a State? Implications of Statelessness for a State-Centric Human Protection Norm, Brett R. O'Bannon 5. The Responsibility to Protect in the Congo: The Failure of Prevention, Séverine Autesserre 6. United Nations Action in Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect, Alex J. Bellamy 7. The Unintended Consequences of UN peacekeeping in post-war South Sudan: Why Everyone Wants a Uniform, Carol Berger 8. Crying Out for Action: Do the Dead Say Anything about the Responsibility to Protect?, John K. Roth
Biography
Brett R. O’Bannon is Leonard E. and Mary B. Howell Professor of Political Science and Director of Conflict Studies at DePauw University, USA, and Senior Fellow, Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
