TY - JOUR
T1 - India and the responsibility to protect
AU - Møller, Bjørn
PY - 2017/8/3
Y1 - 2017/8/3
N2 - ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P) is an ‘emerging norm’ of international relations, which has been invoked with the intervention in Libya in 2011. Even though this intervention was demanded by several Third World countries and organisations, these have subsequently had second thoughts about the matter and have come to regard R2P as Western neo-imperialism. This article seeks to explain this apparent paradox, with a special focus on India. It also identifies possible compromises by advocating a broader approach to R2P, stressing the responsibility to prevent and to rebuild. It also draws attention to ‘R2P lite’, including the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
AB - ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P) is an ‘emerging norm’ of international relations, which has been invoked with the intervention in Libya in 2011. Even though this intervention was demanded by several Third World countries and organisations, these have subsequently had second thoughts about the matter and have come to regard R2P as Western neo-imperialism. This article seeks to explain this apparent paradox, with a special focus on India. It also identifies possible compromises by advocating a broader approach to R2P, stressing the responsibility to prevent and to rebuild. It also draws attention to ‘R2P lite’, including the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
KW - BRICS
KW - humanitarian intervention
KW - India
KW - protection of civilians
KW - R2P
KW - United Nations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011928496&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01436597.2017.1282312
DO - 10.1080/01436597.2017.1282312
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85011928496
SN - 0143-6597
VL - 38
SP - 1921
EP - 1934
JO - Third World Quarterly
JF - Third World Quarterly
IS - 8
ER -