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The Responsibility to Protect in International Law: An Emerging Paradigm Shift

The Responsibility to Protect in International Law: An Emerging Paradigm Shift

Author: Susan Breau
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138830516
Published In: March 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book will consider a rapidly emerging guiding general principle in international relations and, arguably, in international law: the Responsibility to Protect.

This principle is a solution proposed to a key preoccupation in both international relations and international law scholarship: how the international community is to respond to mass atrocities within sovereign States. There are three facets to this responsibility; the responsibility to prevent; the responsibility to react, and the responsibility to rebuild.

This doctrine will be analysed in light of the parallel development of customary and treaty international legal obligations imposing responsibilities on sovereign states to the international community in key international law fields such as international human rights law, international criminal law and international environmental law.

These new developments demand academic study and this book fills this lacuna by rigorously considering all of these developments as part of a trend towards assumption of international responsibility. This must include the responsibility on the part of all states to respond to threats of genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansings and large-scale war crimes.

The discussion surrounding aggravated state responsibility is also explored, with the author concluding that this emerging norm within international law is closely related to the responsibility to protect in its imposition of an international responsibility to act in response to an international wrong.

This book will be of great interest to scholars on international law, the law of armed conflict, security studies and IR in general.

Introduction

Part I: Historical evolution of the Responsiblity to Protect and Aggravated State Responsibility

1. Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsiblity to Protect

2. State responsibility – the evolution of aggravated state responsibility

Part II: The Responsibiliy to Protect in Practice

3. The Responsibility to Prevent

4. The Responsibility to React -Security Council practice in the area of peace and security – Darfur, Ivory Coast, Libya

5. The responsiblity to rebuild 6. Syria – the difficult case

Part III : Responsibilties in International Law

7. The International Responsiblity to Protect Human Rights

8. International Criminal Law Responsibility

9. International Responsibility towards Environmental Protection