Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-x

Part I - Context

pp 1-2

1 - Introduction: theorising global responsibilities

pp 3-15

2 - The evolution of the Responsibility to Protect: from concept and principle to actionable norm

pp 16-37

3 - From the right to persecute to the Responsibility to Protect: Feuerbachian inversions of rights and responsibilities in state–citizen relations

pp 38-58

4 - The Responsibility to Protect and a theory of norm circulation

pp 59-78

Part II - The Responsibility to Protect, normative theory and global governance

pp 79-80

5 - The Responsibility to Protect and world order

pp 81-100

6 - International law and the Responsibility to Protect

pp 101-124

7 - The Responsibility to Protect, multilateralism and international legitimacy

pp 125-143

8 - Global governance and the Responsibility to Protect

pp 144-161

9 - International law, the Responsibility to Protect and international crises

pp 162-180

10 - The Responsibility to Protect and the just war tradition

pp 181-199

11 - War is not the answer: the Responsibility to Protect and military intervention

pp 200-220

Part III - The Responsibility to Protect and international social purposes

pp 221-222

12 - United Nations peacekeeping and the Responsibility to Protect

pp 223-248

13 - Humanitarian law, refugee protection and the Responsibility to Protect

pp 249-265

14 - Is the Responsibility to Protect doctrine gender-neutral?

pp 266-284

15 - The Responsibility to Protect: a Western idea?

pp 285-304

16 - Colonialism and the Responsibility to Protect

pp 305-322

Index

pp 323-344