Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities
By (Author) Luke Glanville
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th July 2021
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
International relations
Political science and theory
Public international law: human rights
General and world history
341.48
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A look at the duty of nations to protect human rights beyond borders, why it has failed in practice, and what can be done about it The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite some early twenty-first century successes, including the 2005 United Nations endorsement of t
Reviews
"This book is well written, easy to read and . . . constitutes an important reminder that the responsibility to protect is a responsibility we have to come up with and we have to take it seriously if remembrance of historical experience, as cruel and as tragic as it often has been, is of any value to mankind."---Peter Hilpold, Europa Ethnica
Author Bio
Luke Glanville is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History. Twitter @luke_glanville
