1st Edition

The UN Charter, the Refugee Convention and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine Towards a Preventative Protection Regime

By Ainoa Cabada Copyright 2026
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book investigates three key frameworks applicable to the protection of asylum seekers and refugees: the Charter of the United Nations, the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. Through rigorous analysis, it reveals how the current international refugee protection regime embodies a narrow, reactive approach and makes a compelling case that... Read more

Acknowledgement

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: The UN Charter

Chapter 2: The Refugee Convention

Chapter 3: The Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

Chapter 4: A Comparative Analysis of the UN Charter, the Refugee Convention, and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

Chapter 5: Towards a Preventative Protection Regime

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Ainoa Cabada is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in International Security at Adelaide University. She has a particular interest in the role that sovereignty plays in human rights as a result of state dominance. Her expertise focuses on early warning of mass atrocities, refugee migration, blacklisting of political dissidents and authoritarianism.

"This book is a timely intervention in the scholarship on migration, international law, and the United Nations. Cabada shows the connections between the UN Charter and 1951 Refugee Convention, and how R2P is a continuation of similar legal principles. The book is clear, thorough, and rigorous and is an important contribution to the study of global migration governance."

Nicholas R. Micinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Maine