Humanitarian Intervention & the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?

by James Pattison

Book Overview

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently. The doctrine of the responsibility to protect asserts that when a state is failing to uphold its citizens' human rights, the international community has a responsibility to protect these citizens,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199656622
• ISBN13: 9780199656622
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"