Covid-19 and Atrocity Prevention in East Asia

This edited volume examines the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peoples and states in East Asia.

The book brings together selected case studies in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asian region that analyse how states in the region have responded to the pandemic and its multi-dimensional threats to human security, including risks of atrocity crimes. In the context of protecting human security and upholding the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the work analyses how such a con...