Rosemary Foot is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. In 1996, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Her publications include China, the United States and Global Order (with Andrew Walter, CUP, 2011) and Rights Beyond Borders (OUP, 2000). Her research interests cover security relations in the Asia-Pacific, human rights diplomacy, China's influence on regional and global order, and China-US relations.

• Introduction 1: Defining the Scope 2: UN Peace Operations 3: The Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda 4: The Responsibility to Protect 5: The Syrian Crisis 6: The UN's Human Rights Bodies 7: Positioning Development in Human Protection 8: Conclusion: Shaping from Within?

Rosemary Foot, a distinguished scholar of China and of human rights, has written an important new book on China's approach to human protection at and within the United Nations (UN). This succinctly argued account builds upon her decades of scholarship on these topics; the result is what one reviewer terms "essential reading for policy and scholarly audiences alike.