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The UN Security Council Members' Responsibility to Protect

A Legal Analysis

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Authors:
  1. Andreas S. Kolb

    1. Hamburg, Germany

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  • Contributes to a fuller picture of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept from the perspective of international law
  • Focuses on the individual UN Security Council members as key actors when it comes to taking collective international action to prevent atrocities
  • Examines different sources of written and unwritten international law and explains in detail the theoretical and methodological guidelines which the analysis follows
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht (BEITRÄGE, volume 274)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. The Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect in the Age of New Wars

    • Andreas S. Kolb
    Pages 1-47

  3. Legal Theory and Methodology

    • Andreas S. Kolb
    Pages 49-127

  4. The Security Council and International Law

    • Andreas S. Kolb
    Pages 129-187

  5. The International Law of Atrocity Crime Prevention

    • Andreas S. Kolb
    Pages 189-341

  6. Multilateral Debates on R2P and the Protection of Civilians, and Their Impact on General and Treaty Law

    • Andreas S. Kolb
    Pages 343-401

  7. Security Council Practice on Atrocity Crime Prevention Since the End of the Cold War

    • Andreas S. Kolb
    Pages 403-523

  8. Conclusions

    • Andreas S. Kolb
    Pages 525-529

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 531-626
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This book examines the hard legal core, if any, of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P)” concept with regard to the commitment to take collective action through the UN Security Council. It addresses the question of whether public international law establishes a duty on the part of the individual Security Council members to collectively take the necessary action to prevent atrocities (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing). To this end, it offers an interpretation of provisions in multilateral conventions, such as the undertaking to prevent genocide in Article 1 of the Genocide Convention and the undertaking to ensure respect for the Geneva Conventions in common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, analyses the UN Charter framework for Security Council action, and explores whether the recognition of the international responsibility to protect has prompted the emergence of a new norm for general international law.

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  • Hamburg, Germany

    Andreas S. Kolb

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