Reconstructing the Responsibility to Protect: From Humanitarian Intervention to Human Security

by Michael J. Butler

This book interrogates the concept of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a normative construct and how the construction and promotion of this norm may have contributed to a stagnation in humanitarian action.

This interrogation includes a particular focus on the impact of R2P on prevailing attitudes and discourses concerning humanitarian military intervention as well as the (under)provision of same. The study seeks to bridge the proverbial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138095664
• ISBN13: 9781138095663
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages