Responsibility to Protect – a Right of Self-Defense for All States against Atrocities
This essay makes a case for the international community’s right of self-defense against atrocities, through its members, and to refer briefly to the challenge of implementing such a right.
This essay makes a case for the international community’s right of self-defense against atrocities, through its members, and to refer briefly to the challenge of implementing such a right. The essay includes two parts. The first deals with the idea of such a right – namely, the need for it and its justification, against whom it may be directed, and a discussion of the counterarguments. The second part of the essay deals with ways to implement the proposed approach.
This article was written on behalf of "The Responsibility to Protect at 10: The Challenge of Protecting the World’s Most Vulnerable Populations" and published by Brandeis University.