International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect

by Anne Orford

Book Overview

The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. Anne Orford situates the 'responsibility to protect' concept in a wider historical and jurisprudential context, demonstrating that the appeal to protection as the basis for de facto authority has emerged at times...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521186382
• ISBN13: 9780521186384
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"