Responsibility to Protect and Interventionist Morality
Topics covered include:
• R2P • will to intervene • securitization • international policing • “failed states” • British humanitarian interventionism • moral orders
Required Readings
Makaremi, Chowra, “Utopias of Power: From Human Security to the Responsibility to Protect,” pp. 107-127, in: Didier Fassin & Mariella Pandolfi (eds.). (2010). Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. New York: Zone Books.
Pupavac, Vanessa, “Between Compassion and Conservatism: A Genealogy of Humanitarian Sensibilities,” pp. 129-149, in: Didier Fassin & Mariella Pandolfi (eds.). (2010). Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. New York: Zone Books.
Fassin, Didier, “Heart of Humaneness: The Moral Economy of Humanitarian Intervention,” pp. 269-293, in: Didier Fassin & Mariella Pandolfi (eds.). (2010). Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. New York: Zone Books.
» Presentations, peer review (worth 10%): Five students presenting for this session, commentary and questions expected from seminar participants
Optional Readings in the New Imperialism Course Pack on Reserve:
Gareth EVANS
The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Brookings Institution Press, 2008) – Ch. 2, “The Solution: From ‘The Right to Intervene’ to ‘The Responsibility to Protect’,” 31-54
Alex J. BELLAMY
Responsibility to Protect (Polity Press, 2009) – Ch. 2, “The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,” 35-65
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
The Responsibility to Protect (International Development Research Centre, 2001) – Ch. 2, “A New Approach: ‘The Responsibility to Protect’,” 11-18
Additional Resources:
- International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty: The Responsibility to Protect
- Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
- International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP)
- R2P Coalition
- Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- Responsibility to Protect
- Michael Walzer, “The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention”
- Noam Chomsky, Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect
Course Blog: Speech: Bill Clinton – “A Just and Necessary War” (1999)
Course Blog: Speech: Tony Blair – “A New Generation Draws the Line” (1999)
Videos:
PBS | FRONTLINE: War in Europe–NATO’s 1999 War against Serbia over Kosovo
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/
Promotional Video for the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine
Statements on the Responsibility to Protect from U.N. Ambassadors
Michael Ignatieff on the Responsibility to Protect
Lloyd Axworthy, Former Canadian Foreign Minister,
University of San Diego, February 2005.
Speaking on the Responsibility to Protect.
Recommended: Start at 15:20
