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Global Politics and the
Responsibility to Protect
From Words to Deeds
Alex J. Bellamy, Griffith University, Australia
Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
This book provides an in-depth
introduction to, and analysis of,
the issues relating to the
implementation of the recent
Responsibility to Protect
principle in international
politics.
The Responsibility to Protect
(RtoP) has come a long way in a
short space of time. It was
endorsed by the General
Assembly of the UN in 2005,
and unanimously reaffirmed by
the Security Council in 2006 (Resolution 1674) and 2009
(Resolution 1894). UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
has identified the challenge of implementing RtoP as
one of the cornerstones of his Secretary-Generalship.
The principle has also become part of the working
language of international engagement with
humanitarian crises and has been debated in relation to
almost every recent international crisis – including
Sudan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Georgia, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Darfur and Somalia.
Concentrating mainly on implementation challenges
including the prevention of genocide and mass
atrocities, strengthening the UN’s capacity to respond,
and the role of regional organizations, this book
introducing readers to contemporary debates on R2P
and provides the first book-length analysis of the
implementation agenda.
The book will be of great interest to students of the
responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention,
human rights, foreign policy, security studies and IR and
politics in general.
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. From Idea to Norm
2. Implementing RtoP at the UN 3. Humanitarian Crises
since 2005 4. An Assessment after Five Years 5. Economic
Development and Democratisation 6. Early Warning
7. Regional Arrangements (with Sara E. Davies) 8. The UN
Security Council and the Use of Force Conclusion
December 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-56735-0: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-56736-7: £23.99
eBook: 978-0-203-83716-0
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The Responsibility to Protect
Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in
International Politics
Ramesh Thakur, University of Waterloo, Canada
Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
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 to R2P as an actor,
public intellectual and academic and has been a key
thinker in this process. These essays represent the
author’s writings on R2P, including reference to test
cases as they arose, such as with Cyclone Nargis in
Myanmar in 2008.
Comprising essays by a key thinker and agent in the
Responsibility to Protect debates, this book will be of
much interest to students of international politics,
human rights, international law, war and conflict studies,
international security and IR in general.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Norms and Laws in
International Relations 2. Non-Intervention in International
Relations: A Case Study 3. Kosovo, Humanitarian
Intervention and the Challenge of World Order with Albrecht
Schnabel 4. Global Norms and International Humanitarian
Law: An Asian Perspective 5. Intervention, Sovereignty and
the Responsibility to Protect: Experiences from ICISS 6. In
Defence of The Responsibility to Protect 7. Collective
Security and the Use of Force: Reflections on the Report of
the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
8. The Responsibility to Protect and Prosecute: The Parallel
Erosion of Sovereignty and Impunity with Vesselin Popovski
9. R2P: From Idea to Norm – and Action? with Thomas G.
Weiss 10. The Responsibility to Protect and the North-South
Divide 11. R2P and the Protection of Civilians in Armed
Conflict 12. Conclusion: Normative Incoherence,
Inconsistency and Contestation
December 2010: 234 x 156: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-78168-8: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-78169-5: £24.99
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Risk and the War on Terror
Edited by Louise Amoore, University of Durham, UK
and Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
’This anthology’s broad
coverage of the relationship
of risk to the war on terror’s
proliferation of surveillance
is extraordinary. The work of
this excellent group of
scholars is innovative and
compelling.’ - Michael Shapiro,
University of Hawaii, USA
2008: 234 x 156: 296pp
Hb: 978-0-415-44323-4: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-44324-1: £24.99
eBook: 978-0-203-92770-0
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iNterNAtioNAl security
ForthcomiNg
International Security & Peace
Science
Origins & Evolution
J. david Singer, University of Michigan, USA
Professor J. David Singer has
been arguably the most
important influence on
quantitative research into the
causes and attributes of war.
This collection is a carefully
selected overview of his work
which provides not only an
excellent introduction to his
considerable methodological,
theoretical and empirical
contributions but also an
intellectual history of
developments in the field of international relations
which are reflected in Professor Singer’s work.
This is essential reading for all those with an interest in
the use of quantitative methods in social science, the
changing nature of the study of international relations
and the analysis of war and peace.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: The Making of a Peace
Researcher 2. Earlier Evaluations of National Security Policy
3. Public Dove but Policy Wonk 4. Querulous and Suggestive
Interventions 5. Conceptual and Methodological Insights
6. From Conventional Concepts to Operational Indicators
7. Scientific Research Payoffs 8. Sermons for the Next
Generation
September 2011: 234 x 156: 288pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77959-3: £85.00
Pb: 978-0-415-77960-9: £26.99
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Rethinking Insecurity, War and
Violence
Beyond Savage Globalization?
Edited by damian Grenfell and Paul James, both
at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
This collection of essays rethinks
the security paradigm in the
context of the War on Terror,
providing a broad and
systematic analysis of the
long-term sources of political,
military and cultural insecurity
from the local to the global.
2008: 234 x 156: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43226-9: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-43227-6: £24.99
eBook: 978-0-203-89419-4
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