Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities

By Alex J. Bellamy

Book Overview

This book charts the emergence of the principle of Responsibility to Protect, from its origins in a doctrine of sovereignty as responsibility, through debates about the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention and the findings of a prominent international commission, and finally through the long negotiations that preceded the 2005 commitment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YWH03W
• ISBN13: 9780745643489
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"