Beyond the Responsibility to Protect in International Law: An Ethics of Irresponsibility

This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’.

The idea that the international community has a responsibility to protect populations at risk has become the prominent mode and structure of address in response to mass human atrocities, gross human rights violations, and large-scale loss of life. Although the "international community" of liberal international law and of legal cosmopolitanism for the most part projects a self-assured col...