Non-Fiction Books:

India and the Responsibility to Protect

Sorry, this product is not currently available to order

Here are some other products you might consider...

India and the Responsibility to Protect

Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!
Unavailable
Sorry, this product is not currently available to order

Description

Bloomfield charts India’s profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally undermining the sovereign state system, a matter which is now substantially shaped by debates about the responsibility to protect (R2P) norm. Books about India’s evolving role in world affairs and about R2P have proliferated recently, but this is the first to draw these two debates together. It examines India’s historical responses to humanitarian crises, starting with the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, concentrating on the years 2011 and 2012 when India sat on the UN Security Council. Three serious humanitarian crises broke during its tenure - in Côte d'Ivoire, Libya and Syria - which collectively sparked a ferocious debate within India. The book examines what became largely a battle over ’what sort of actor’ modern India is, or should be, to determine how this contest shaped both India’s responses to these humanitarian tragedies and also the wider debates about rising India’s international identity. The book’s findings also have important (and largely negative) implications for the broader effort to make R2P a recognised and actionable international norm.

Author Biography:

Alan Bloomfield is a former solicitor from Perth, Australia. After completing degrees in Australia and Canada in the field of international relations he is currently the Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Australia.
Release date NZ
December 9th, 2015
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Pages
245
ISBN-13
9781409468721
Product ID
27787585

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Help & options

Filed under...