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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Problem of Political Will

Authors :
Jed Lea-Henry
Source :
Polish Political Science Yearbook, Vol 47, Iss 3, Pp 553-570 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Wydawnictwo Adam MarszaƂek, 2018.

Abstract

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was created in the hope of overcoming the barrier that state sovereignty, as a principle, had become to actions of humanitarian intervention. It was imagined that as mass atrocity crimes were coming to the attention of the international community, that, on the whole, they were willing, able and eager to intervene in order to stop the violence in question. Holding them back was sovereignty as both a legal and normative barrier. This was always a bad explanation for the pervasive lack of humanitarian intervention; accordingly R2P, as a bad solution, has failed almost entirely. The problem is, and always has been, that when faced with mass atrocity crimes, the international community is plagued by a near-permanent lack of political will to action.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
02087375
Volume :
47
Issue :
3
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Polish Political Science Yearbook
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.8c9bcdbf9f594e21ad2da9df542e0001
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018308