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Reassessing the responsibility to protect : conceptual and operational challenges / edited by Brett R. O'Bannon. - London: Routledge, 2016. - x, 166 pages : 24 cm. - Global politics and the responsibility to protect .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The responsibility to protect and the limits of international authority / Anne Orford -- Understanding the gap between the promise and the reality of "the responsibility to protect" / David Chandler -- The rise and fall (and supposed rise again) of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as a norm of international law : R2P in the human rights landscape / Jeremy Sarkin -- Africa : is there a state? Implications of statelessness for a state-centric human protection norm / Brett R. O'Bannon -- The responsibility to protect in the Congo : the failure of grassroots prevention / Séverine Autesserre -- United Nations action in Sri Lanka and the responsibility to protect / Alex J. Bellamy -- The unintended consequences of UN peacekeeping in post-war South Sudan : why everyone wants a uniform / Carol Berger -- Crying out for action : do the dead say anything about the responsibility to protect? / John K. Roth.

ISBN: 9780415667579 (hardback)

LCCN: 2015018880

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Responsibility to protect (International law)

LC Class. No.: KZ4082 / REA 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 341.4/8