Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention

Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, New York. Recent books include, East Asia’s Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities (Oxford, 2017), The Responsibility to Protect: A Defense (Oxford, 2015) and Massacres and Morality: Mass Killing in an Age of Civilian Immunity (Oxford, 2012).Stephen McLoughlin is a Lecturer in International Relations, and Convener of the MA Peace Studies Program at Liverpool Hope. His research interests include mass atrocity prevention, the role of the UN in conceptualising and carrying out prevention, the causes of genocide and mass atrocities, and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). He is also the deputy director of the Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies.

• IntroductionChapter 1 – Atrocities and ResponsesChapter 2 – Towards Human ProtectionChapter 3 – Protection Without ForceChapter 4 – Intervention in LibyaChapter 5 – The Problem of Regime ChangeChapter 6 – The Problem of AccountabilityChapter 7 – Consistency and ComplicationsChapter 8 – Human Protection in Crisis?

This comprehensive introduction offers a timely reassessment of key debates. The authors show expert insight into the big questions surrounding human protection, regime change, and consistency. In so doing, it acts as a much needed addition to any reading list.