The UN Security Council’s failure to pass a proposed resolution on Syria has put the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine “in major crisis,” argues Stewart Patrick, director of CFR’s International ...

Tim Dunne is Director of Research, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the University of Queensland. Rodger Shanahan makes a number of claims about the norm of Responsibility to ...

In the shadow of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the Srebrenica massacre, the world made a promise that never again would mass atrocities unfold while the international community ...

Imagine two Arab cities of approximately 700,000 people, each surrounded by the military forces of autocratic regimes intent on crushing rebellions against its rule. In one case, the West mounts an ...