- The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- R2P in Theory and Practice
- Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
- The Genocide Convention and Cold War Humanitarian Intervention
- The Turbulent 1990s: R2P Precedents and Prospects
- Sovereignty as Responsibility: Building Block for R2P
- Rwanda, Kosovo, and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
- The Genesis of R2P: Kofi Annan’s Intervention Dilemma
- R2P’s Status as a Norm
- Sovereignty
- Moral Agents of Protection and Supplementary Responsibilities to Protect
- R2P and International Law: A Paradigm Shift?
- How Well Does R2P Travel Beyond the West?
- The Responsibility Not to Veto: A Responsibility Too Far?
- UN Security Council
- UN General Assembly
- Getting There, Being There: The Dual Roles of the Special Adviser
- UN Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights
- The Role of Regional Organizations: A Responsibility Gap?
- The African Union
- Asia Pacific and South Asia
- Europe and the European Union
- Russia
- Latin America
- The Arab Region
- United States
- Addressing the Gender Gap in R2P
- The Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and R2P
- The R2P, Protection of Civilians, and UN Peacekeeping Operations
- Saving Individuals from the Scourge of War: Complementarity and Tension between R2P and Humanitarian Action
- The Use of Force
- Conflict Prevention and R2P
- Responding to Forced Displacement as a Mass Atrocity Crime
- Responsibility while Protecting
- The International Criminal Court
- The Use of UN Sanctions to Address Mass Atrocities
- The Politics of Global Humanitarianism: R2P before and after Libya
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Darfur
- The Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kenya
- Libya
- Mali
- Myanmar
- North Korea
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- R2P: The Next Ten Years
- The State, Development, and Humanitarianism: China’s Shaping of the Trajectory of R2P
- Embedding R2P in a New Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
- Resetting the Narrative on Peace and Security: R2P in the Next Ten Years
- R2P’s Next Ten Years: Deepening and Extending the Consensus
- Bibliography
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The concept of the responsibility to protect (R2P) has been criticized by some scholars on the grounds that it is incompatible with the principle of sovereignty. This chapter examines sovereignty and its relationship to R2P. It contrasts static and ahistorical descriptions of sovereignty with interpretations that more usefully emphasize sovereignty’s historically contingent and contested nature and it shows how sovereignty has been constructed at various times in its history to entail not only rights but responsibilities, including responsibilities for the protection of the population. It then considers the implications of this historically informed account of sovereignty for the understanding and practice of R2P today.
Keywords: accountability, intervention, non-intervention, responsibility to protect, sovereignty
Luke Glanville, Australian National University
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- The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- R2P in Theory and Practice
- Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
- The Genocide Convention and Cold War Humanitarian Intervention
- The Turbulent 1990s: R2P Precedents and Prospects
- Sovereignty as Responsibility: Building Block for R2P
- Rwanda, Kosovo, and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
- The Genesis of R2P: Kofi Annan’s Intervention Dilemma
- R2P’s Status as a Norm
- Sovereignty
- Moral Agents of Protection and Supplementary Responsibilities to Protect
- R2P and International Law: A Paradigm Shift?
- How Well Does R2P Travel Beyond the West?
- The Responsibility Not to Veto: A Responsibility Too Far?
- UN Security Council
- UN General Assembly
- Getting There, Being There: The Dual Roles of the Special Adviser
- UN Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights
- The Role of Regional Organizations: A Responsibility Gap?
- The African Union
- Asia Pacific and South Asia
- Europe and the European Union
- Russia
- Latin America
- The Arab Region
- United States
- Addressing the Gender Gap in R2P
- The Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and R2P
- The R2P, Protection of Civilians, and UN Peacekeeping Operations
- Saving Individuals from the Scourge of War: Complementarity and Tension between R2P and Humanitarian Action
- The Use of Force
- Conflict Prevention and R2P
- Responding to Forced Displacement as a Mass Atrocity Crime
- Responsibility while Protecting
- The International Criminal Court
- The Use of UN Sanctions to Address Mass Atrocities
- The Politics of Global Humanitarianism: R2P before and after Libya
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Darfur
- The Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kenya
- Libya
- Mali
- Myanmar
- North Korea
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- R2P: The Next Ten Years
- The State, Development, and Humanitarianism: China’s Shaping of the Trajectory of R2P
- Embedding R2P in a New Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
- Resetting the Narrative on Peace and Security: R2P in the Next Ten Years
- R2P’s Next Ten Years: Deepening and Extending the Consensus
- Bibliography
- Index
