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UNINA9910790158103321 |
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Titolo |
Responsibility to protect : from principle to practice / / edited by Julia Hoffmann and AndreĢ Nollkaemper ; assistant editor, Isabelle Swerissen [[electronic resource]] |
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Amsterdam : , : Pallas Publications, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-11831-8 |
9786613522603 |
90-485-1504-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Intervention (International law) |
International obligations |
Humanitarian intervention |
Responsibility to protect (International law) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. The emergence of the responsibility to protect -- pt. 2. The responsibility to protect under international law -- pt. 3. Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect -- pt. 4. International organisations and the responsibility to protect -- pt. 5. Implementing the responsibility to protect. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The tragic events in the 1990s in Rwanda, Srebrenica and Kosovo, and the crisis in Libya in 2011 have triggered a fundamental rethinking of the role and responsibility of the international community. It is now accepted that while individual states continue to bear the primary responsibility to protect their populations against genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes within their boundaries, the international community should step in when the state is unable or unwilling to provide such protection. The principle of the Responsibility to Protect, or RtoP, reflects this recognition, and provides the normative basis for involvement of the international community in cases of mass atrocities. This thoughtful work is a major contribution towards clarifying what RtoP can offer, moving from principle to |
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