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The responsibility to protect and the failures of the United Nations Security Council / P M Butchard.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Studies in international law ; 75Publisher: Oxford ; Hart, 2020Distributor: [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781509930838
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 341.6/7 23
LOC classification:
  • KZ6376 .B88 2020eb
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also published in print.
Contents:
A Warning to Humanity -- The Responsibility to Protect -- The Legal Responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council -- The Tertiary Responsibility and Forcible Measures -- The Tertiary Responsibility and Non-Forcible Measures -- Implementing the Tertiary Responsibility to Protect -- General Conclusions
Summary: "What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities? At a time of inaction and political paralysis at the United Nations, this book explains the legality of alternative action beyond the Security Council. This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security Council. It argues that the Security Council's responsibility to maintain international peace and security, and its responsibility to protect, do not die with its own failures. Other actors can and must take up responsibility to save those in need. In a persuasive and detailed examination of the legal framework, this research identifies options for coercive measures to be taken beyond the Council that could be used to break the deadlock, including through the General Assembly and regional organisations. The book provides a must-have resource for students, academics, and researchers on key principles of international law. It also offers insight for governments, policy-makers, and other international actors on how they can uphold their legal responsibilities, maintain peace and security, and prevent their failures from undermining the very existence of the UN itself"-- Provided by publisher.
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Unviersity of Liverpool, 2017) under title: The responsibility to protect when the UN Security Council fails to act : is there room for a tertiary responsibility?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Warning to Humanity -- The Responsibility to Protect -- The Legal Responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council -- The Tertiary Responsibility and Forcible Measures -- The Tertiary Responsibility and Non-Forcible Measures -- Implementing the Tertiary Responsibility to Protect -- General Conclusions

Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.

"What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities? At a time of inaction and political paralysis at the United Nations, this book explains the legality of alternative action beyond the Security Council. This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security Council. It argues that the Security Council's responsibility to maintain international peace and security, and its responsibility to protect, do not die with its own failures. Other actors can and must take up responsibility to save those in need. In a persuasive and detailed examination of the legal framework, this research identifies options for coercive measures to be taken beyond the Council that could be used to break the deadlock, including through the General Assembly and regional organisations. The book provides a must-have resource for students, academics, and researchers on key principles of international law. It also offers insight for governments, policy-makers, and other international actors on how they can uphold their legal responsibilities, maintain peace and security, and prevent their failures from undermining the very existence of the UN itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Also published in print.

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