1st Edition

Constructing the Responsibility to Protect Contestation and Consolidation

Edited By Charles T. Hunt, Phil Orchard Copyright 2020
208 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and contestation. The book focuses on how the R2P doctrine has been both consolidated and contested along three dimensions, regarding its meaning, status and application. The first focuses on how the R2P should be understood in a theoretical sense, exploring... Read more

Introduction: Consolidation and Contestation of the Responsibility to Protect Charles T. Hunt and Phil Orchard

1. Contestation, Norms, and the Responsibility to Protect as a Regime Phil Orchard

2. R2P and the Benefits of Norm Ambiguity Luke Glanville and Wesley W. Widmaier

3. Telling the Story of R2P: The Emplotment of R2P in the UN Security Council’s debates on Libya Sassan Gholiagha and Bastian Loges

4. The Responsibility to Protect and the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations: Interaction, feedback and co-evolution Charles T. Hunt

5. R2P and WPS: Operationalizing Prevention from Alignment Sara E. Davies and Sarah Hewitt

6. Strange Bedfellows: Terrorism/Counter-terrorism and the Responsibility to Protect Shannon Zimmerman

7. Resistance and Accommodation in China’s Approach toward R2P Sarah Teitt

8. Russia and the R2P: Norm Entrepreneur, Anti-Preneur, or Violator? Phil Orchard and Heather Rae

Biography

Charles T. Hunt is Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the Social & Global Studies Centre, RMIT University, Australia.
Phil Orchard is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Wollongong, Australia.