Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South

by Thomas G. Weiss

Book Overview

This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade.

This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding values have resonance and grounding within diverse cultures and within the experiences of societies that have directly been torn apart by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041578185X
• ISBN13: 9780415781855
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"