The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics

by Ramesh Thakur and Ramesh Chandra Thakur

Book Overview

This volume is a collection of the key writings of Professor Ramesh Thakur on norms and laws regulating the international use of force.

The adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle by world leaders assembled at the UN summit in 2005 is widely acknowledged to represent one of the great normative advances in international politics since 1945. The author has been involved in this shift from the dominant norm of non-intervention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415781698
• ISBN13: 9780415781695
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"