Ramesh Chandra Thakur

Theorising the Responsibility to Protect Ramesh Chandra Thakur

Marc Notes: The responsibility to protect is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant developments in international relations since 1945. But it remains controversial in world politics and conceptually contested among scholars. This book examines the principle in relation to the exercise of state power in domestic jurisdictions and international affairs. Review Quotes: "Practice sometimes outpaces norms, or vice-versa; but whatever the sequencing, theorizing is invariably farther behind still. Thakur and Malley have assembled a distinguished but distinctive and diverse group of soloists rather than harmonious choristers. Powerful and persuasive essays are the result, everything you wanted to know about R2P and were afraid to ask." Thomas G. Weiss, Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBrief Description: Relates the Responsibility to Protect to existing bodies of theory on the nature and foundations of political and international order. Table of Contents: Part I. Context: 1. Introduction. Theorising global responsibilities Ramesh Thakur and William Maley; 2. The evolution of the Responsibility to Protect: from concept and principle to actionable norm Gareth Evans; 3. From the right to persecute to the Responsibility to Protect: Feuerbachian inversions of rights and responsibilities in state-citizen relations Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur; 4. R2P and a theory of norm circulation Amitav Acharya; Part II. The Responsibility to Protect, Normative Theory, and Global Governance: 5. Responsibility to Protect and world order Tim Dunne; 6. International law and the Responsibility to Protect Michael Byers; 7. The Responsibility to Protect, multilateralism and international legitimacy Edward Newman; 8. Global governance and the Responsibility to Protect Abiodun Williams; 9. International law, the Responsibility to Protect, and international crises Jean-Marc Coicaud; 10. The Responsibility to Protect and the just war tradition Alex J. Bellamy; 11. War is not the answer: R2P and military intervention Jonathan Graubart; Part III. The Responsibility to Protect and International Social Purposes: 12. United Nations peacekeeping and the Responsibility to Protect Mats Berdal; 13. Humanitarian law, refugee protection, and the Responsibility to Protect William Maley; 14. Is the Responsibility to Protect doctrine gender-neutral? Susan Harris Rimmer; 15. The Responsibility to Protect: a western idea? Jacinta O'Hagan; 16. Colonialism and the Responsibility to Protect Siddharth Mallavarapu. Brief Description: "One of the most important developments in world politics in the last decade has been the spread of the twin ideas that state sovereignty comes with responsibilities - both domestic and international - as well as privileges, and that there exists a global responsibility to protect people threatened by mass-atrocity crimes. The 2001 report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty entitled The Responsibility to Protect put these ideas into active circulation, and United Nations resolutions in 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations gave the idea further substance. More recently, the justification of NATO action in Libya on the strength of Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973, which made explicit reference to the principle of the Responsibility to Protect, has put this particular notion at the centre of discussion of some of the most challenging political dilemmas of our times. As international leaders struggle to find ways to deal with mounting political violence in Syria and more recently with the emergence of the self-styled 'Islamic State in Iraq and Syria', the idea of the Responsibility to Protect, now increasingly labelled simply R2P, is never far below the surface"--Review Quotes: "This thought provoking set of essays by leading thinkers on the prospects and challenges of R2P will interest anyone who cares about innovative and consequential ideas in global political affairs." Taylor B. Seybolt, Associate Professor and Director of the Ford Institute for Human Security, University of Pittsburgh

Contributor Bio:  Thakur, Ramesh Chandra Ramesh Thakur is Head of the Peace Research Center at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Contributor Bio:  Maley, William William Maley is Professor of Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University and a member of the editorial board of Global Responsibility to Protect. He has co-edited The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Cambridge University Press, 1989) and Russia in Search of its Future (Cambridge University Press, 1995).