The UN Security Council Members' Responsibility to Protect A Legal Analysis /

• Main Author: Kolb, Andreas S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, 274
• Subjects: International law.; International humanitarian law.; Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.

This book examines the hard legal core, if any, of the "Responsibility to Protect (R2P)" concept with regard to the commitment to take collective action through the UN Security Council. It addresses the question of whether public international law establishes a duty on the part of the indi...

Table of Contents:

• 1 The Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect in the Age of New Wars
• 2 Legal Theory and Methodology
• 3 The Security Council and International Law
• 4 The International Law of Atrocity Crime Prevention
• 5 Multilateral Debates on R2P and the Protection of Civilians, and Their Impact on General and Treaty Law
• 6 Security Council Practice on Atrocity Crime Prevention Since the End of the Cold War
• 7 Conclusions.