Responsibility to protect : the global effort to end mass atrocities /
Alex J. Bellamy.
- Cambridge : Polity Press, 2009.
- xiv, 249 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
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.