The Responsibility to Protect in Latin America: A New Map (Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 041578221X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This books assesses the opportunities for the normative and practical advancement of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Latin America. The first part offers a detailed study of the evolution of views and attitudes towards the R2P in eight different country cases. Individual chapters provide an analysis of the way in which the debate on humanitarian intervention and the R2P evolved in the period between NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999, and the endorsement of the R2P in paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 Summit Outcome Document. Each case-study offers a brief overview of the main variables and factors that account for the country’s position towards R2P. The study thus begins by tracing each country’s record in human rights norms. These analyses, together with the statements delivered by different delegations in the 2009 R2P debate in the General Assembly provide the basis for a more thorough diagnosis of the movement of each country along a spectrum whose most noticeable aspect has been the movement of formerly neutral states towards more active support. This is both on account of the progress that human rights have made on the continent since the 1980s, and of the experience there of the crimes envisaged by the R2P norm. The volume identifies the points of res