TY - BOOK AU - Hehir,Aidan TI - The responsibility to protect : rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention SN - 9780230289185 AV - KZ4082 .H44 2012 U1 - 341.584 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Basingstoke, New York, NY PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Responsibility to protect (International law) KW - Humanitarian intervention N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index; Rhetoric and Reality -- PART I: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: SOUND AND FURY? The Evolution of the Responsibility to Protect ; The Responsibility to Protect, Authority and International Law ; The Responsibility to Prevent: The Last Refuge of the Unimaginative? ; Political Will and Non-Intervention -- PART II: BEYOND R2P. In Defence of Humanitarian Intervention and the Potential of International Law ; Understanding the Tension between Sovereignty and Intervention ; Grasping the Nettle: The Parameters of Viable Reform ; The Future of Humanitarian Intervention N2 - "The notion of a responsibility to protect (R2P) has come to dominate debates about humanitarian intervention. This important new book provides a systematic assessment of its evolution and gives a careful critique of its limits in mapping out alternative avenues for the prevention of - and responses to - humanitarian crises." -- Publisher's website UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy13pdf01/2011277729.html ER -