Forschungsarbeit: The Invocation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine à la Libya With Regard to Syria

The Invocation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine à la Libya With Regard to Syria

Was it a Realistic Scenario?

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Völkerrecht, Europarecht, Vergleichendes Öffentliches Recht, volume 3

Hamburg , 136 pages

ISBN 978-3-8300-9850-8 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-09850-4 (eBook)

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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) celebrated its 16th birthday last autumn. It is a concept with a hybrid structure: R2P comprises purely political as well as legally binding components. In essence, the philosophy of R2P stipulates that each state is primarily responsible for protecting its own population from atrocities. However, if the state turns out to be either unwilling or unable to assume this responsibility, the international community (especially through the framework of the United Nations) should act on a subsidiary basis.

The primary focus of this book is on the Syrian conflict from a R2P perspective. Special attention is paid to the military component of the latter since it represents the most discussed and controversial element.

The Libya intervention in 2011 constituted a novelty insofar as the United Nations Security Council authorised that operation with R2P language. As regards civil strife in Syria, a similar course of action was requested by many quarters of the world. However, the Security Council was not able to agree upon a R2P-based military intervention a second time. The reasons for this failure are examined in this book.

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