The People Vs. the State: Reflections on UN Authority, U.S. Power and the Responsibility to Protect: Reflections on UN Authority, U.S. Power and Responsibility to Protect - Softcover

Ramesh Thakur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9280812076 ISBN 13: 9789280812077

Publisher: UN Distributed Titles, 2011

Synopsis

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) aims to convert international conscience into timely and decisive collective action to rescue vulnerable communities. The choice is not whether international interventions will take place but where, when, how and under whose authority. Given the nature and victims of modern armed conflict, protection of civilians and populations at risk of mass atrocities is a core United Nations imperative. But while the UN has international authority, it lacks military power. Although its military might well have unmatched global reach, the United States acting unilaterally lacks international authority. This publication argues that progress towards good international society requires that force be harnessed to authority as the R2P moves from a universally validated principle-a routinely actionable norm.

About this title

About the Author:

Ramesh Thakur is professor of international relations in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University.

About this edition

• Publisher: UN Distributed Titles
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9280812076
• ISBN 13: 9789280812077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260