Reconstructing the Responsibility to Protect: From Humanitarian Intervention to Human Security

This book revisits and interrogates the evolution of the Responsibility to Protect in search of the root cause of R2P’s failure to date.

Employing a critical constructivist lens throughout, the book locates the origin of that apparent failure in the close association of R2P with humanitarian intervention. In returning to the ideational underpinnings and broader ambitions of R2P’s architects, the analysis reveals that reducing R2P to little more than a “solution” to the long-standing problem(...