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Syria, the United Nations, and the Responsibility to Protect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Saira Mohamed
Saira Mohamed*
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University of California at Berkeley School of Law
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Late Breaking Panel: The United Nations and Syria
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 106 , 2012 , pp. 223 - 226
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 Int’l Comm’n on Intervention and State Sovereignty [ICISS], The Responsibility to Protect 1 (2001); see also Mohamed, Saira, Taking Stock of the Responsibility to Protect, 48 Stan. J. Int’l L. (forthcoming 2012)Google Scholar; Stahn, Carsten, Responsibility to Protect: Political Rhetoric or Emerging Legal Norm?, 101 AJIL 99 (2007)Google Scholar.

2 ICISS, supra note 1, at xi.

3 Id.

4 Id. at 17.

5 See Stahn, supra note 1, at 118-20.

6 See Iciss, supra note 1, at 49-52.

7 Id. at xiii.

8 See id. at 55.

9 Evans, Garetti, From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect, 24 Wis. Int’l L.J. 703, 714 (2006)Google Scholar.

10 See 2005 World Summit Outcome, G.A. Res. 60/1, para. 138, U.N. Doc. A/60/L.1 (Sept. 20, 2005).

11 Id. para. 139.

12 Id. para. 139.

13 See S.C. Res. 1973, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1973 (Mar. 17, 2011).

14 Bellamy, Alex J. & Williams, Paul D., The New Politics of Protection? Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and the Responsibility to Protect, 87 Int’l Aff. 825, 847 (2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Remarks at Breakfast Roundtable with Foreign Ministers, Sept. 23, 2011, http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/search_full.asp?statID=1325.

16 See, e.g., David Rieff, R2P, R.I.P, Int’l Her. Trib., Nov. 8, 2011, at 6; Elliott Abrams, R2P, R.I.P, Pressure Points (Mar. 8, 2012), http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2012/03/08/r2p-r-i-p/.

17 See Saira Mohamed, The U.N. Security Council and the Crisis in Libya, ASIL Insights (Mar. 26, 2012), http://www.asil.org/insightsl20326.cfm.

18 See, e.g., MacFarquhar, Neil, Syrian Clashes Continue as Forces Scramble to Scrub Signs of Horns Assault, N.Y. Times, Mar. 7, 2012, at A6 Google Scholar (quoting statement by President Barack Obama that “[f]or us to take military action ... is a mistake”).

19 ICISS, supra note 1, at 16; see also id. at 32 (describing criteria for intervention).

20 See id. at 8 (describing the scope of the concept).

21 See MacFarquhar, Neil & Bakri, Nada, Isolating Syria, Arab Group Sets Broad Sanctions, N.Y. Times, Nov. 28, 2011, at A1 Google Scholar.

22 See Q&A: Syria Sanctions, BBC News (Mar. 23, 2012), http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15753975.

23 Gladstone, Rick, General Assembly Votes to Condemn Syrian Leader, N.Y. Times, Feb. 17, 2012, at A12 Google Scholar.

24 See generally Goodman, Ryan, Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War, 100 AJIL 107 (2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

25 See Homans, Charles, Just What it a Just War?, Foreign Poly, Nov. 2011, at 34, 35 Google Scholar.

26 See ICISS, supra note 1, at 5-6; Mohamed, supra note 1 (manuscript at 17-18) (on file with author).

27 See Mohamed, supra note 1 (manuscript at 15-16).

28 ICISS, supra note 1, at 70.

29 See Orford, Anne, International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect 22 (2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Bellamy, Alex J., Whither the Responsibility to Protect: Humanitarian Intervention and the 2005 World Summit, 20 Ethics & Int’l Affs. 143, 148-9 (2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.