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dc.contributor.authorBellamy, Alex
dc.contributor.authorReike, Ruben
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:49:51Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:49:51Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-03-29T06:53:43Z
dc.identifier.issn18759858
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/187598410X500390
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/37817
dc.description.abstractThe article evaluates the relationship between the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) principle and international law. We argue that although the principle is best understood as a political commitment to implement already existing legal commitments, the RtoP is not devoid of legal content as some of its critics claim. The principle contains two sets of legal responsibilities. The first - responsibilities owed by a state towards its own population - are well-established customary principles in international law. The second - responsibilities owed by states to populations in other states - are much less well established. We argue that although RtoP does not in itself create new legal duties, states already have international legal responsibilities that relate directly to the principle's second pillar. Moreover, we identify the emergence of nascent legal thinking which suggests that a wider set of legal duties might emerge in the future.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMartinus Nijhoff
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom267
dc.relation.ispartofpageto285
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGlobal Responsibility to Protect
dc.relation.ispartofvolume2
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational Relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160607
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleThe Responsibility to Protect and International Law
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBellamy, Alex J.


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