The Responsibility to Protect: From Promise to Practice

by Alex J. Bellamy, Edward C Luck, Edward C. Luck

Book Overview

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN's "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) principle. As often as not, however, R2P has failed to translate into decisive action. Why does this gap persist between the world's normative pledges to R2P and its ability to make it a daily lived reality?

In this new book, leading global authorities on humanitarian protection Alex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509512446
• ISBN13: 9781509512447
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"