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100			_aOman, Natalie _eAuthor.
245			_aThe Responsibility to Protect in International Law : _bphilosophical investigations / _cNatalie Oman
260			_aNewyork : _bRoutledge, _c2021.
300			_a206p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with subsequent interpretations of the responsibility to protect advocated by the United Nations through its human protection agenda, and reviews the dangers and inconsistencies inherent in both perspectives. The author demonstrates that the evolving responsibility to protect principle can be recruited to support a wide range of irreconcilable projects, from those of cosmopolitan constitutionalism to those of hegemonic international law. However, despite the dangers posed by this susceptibility to conceptual hijacking, Oman argues that the responsibility to protect, like human rights, is an essential a modern emancipatory formation. To remedy this dangerous malleability, the author advocates a third, distinctive interpretation of the responsibility to protect designed to limit its cooptation by liberal anti-pluralist and hegemonic international law agendas. Oman outlines the key features of such a minimalist conception, and explores its fit with the "RtoP" version of the responsibility to protect promoted in recent years by the UN. The author argues that two crucial features missing from the UN reading of the principle should be developed in future: an acknowledgement of the role of non-state actors as bearers of the responsibility to protect, and a recognition of the principle's legal character. Both of these aspects of the principle offer means to democratize the international law-making enterprise.
546			_aEnglish.
650			_aResponsibility to Protect (R2P) Concept _xPhilosophical Underpinnings of the Responsibility to Protect.
650			_aChallenges and Criticisms of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine _xCase Studies and Practical Implications.
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