The reflections on UN authority, US power and the responsibility to protect Thakur, Ramesh 1948- creator text bibliography Electronic books. cc Tokyo New York United Nations University Press 2011 monographic eng

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242 p.; 24 cm Professor Ramesh Thakur, former Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University and UN Assistant Secretary-General, is sometimes described as one of the intellectual godfathers of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Based in our common humanity, R2P is an acceptance of a duty of care by those living in safety towards those trapped in zones of danger. It aims to convert a shocked international conscience into timely and decisive collective action to rescue vulnerable communities so that groups condemned to die in fear can live in hope instead. For more than a decade, Thakur has been deeply The people vs. the state: Reflections on UN authority, US power and the Responsibility to Protect; Endorsements; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Kosovo teaches might is right; 2 Kosovo's lessons in racism; 3 The UN at millennium's end; 4 Defining new goals for diplomacy of the twenty-first century; Note; 5 NATO in the Balkans: Between failure and disaster; 6 Peace's high price in Kosovo; 7 The UN's impossible task; 8 Partnerships for humanitarian crises; 9 Vandalism in Afghanistan and no one to stop it; Note; 10 Injustice across borders?; 11 When to intervene: Collective might in service 12 Commission a model of global cooperation13 Help the huddled masses; 14 In the wake of India's tragedy, six reasons for hope; 15 Peacekeeping: Diplomacy's odd couple, the US and the UN; 16 Reforming the UN: An encouraging start under Annan; 17 The ICC: When guilt goes beyond crime; 18 Testing times for the UN; 19 Intervention could bring safeguards in Asia; 20 War vindicates UN stance; 21 End of the old world disorder?; 22 US considers UN approval of force optional; 23 Why India said "no" to US; 24 Chrétien was right: It's time to redefine a "just war"; 25 Reforming the United Nations 26 Celebrating Human Rights Day in an oppressive world27 How the legitimacy of US goals has been undermined by its war on Iraq; 28 The Iraq war in retrospect; 29 Stepping in to protect oppressed people; 30 New jailers, same prison?; 31 Save us from the humanitarians for war; 32 Choosing how to intervene; 33 Did Kosovo illuminate Iraq?; 34 Reshaping the concept of shared responsibility for global security; 35 Freedom, when it suits US; 36 Peer review of human rights; 37 The UN at 60: The place where humanity's divisions meet; 38 Balancing security and rights 39 East Timor: When peace and justice collide40 UN's "Einstein" moment; 41 From national security to human security; 42 Tyrants under the gun: The reduction of impunity; 43 In selecting new UN secretary-general, leadership most important factor; 44 Scapegoating the United Nations would erode its legitimacy; 45 Action must be taken against peacekeeper sexual predators; 46 North-South fault line in global politics; 47 UN is still the world's best hope for peace; 48 A war that was won by not losing, and lost by not winning; 49 Know the goals of military intervention 50 What Annan has contributed to world51 The responsibility to protect revisited; 52 Law versus legitimacy at the United Nations; 53 Unintended consequences of blue berets' actions; 54 Human rights, national security and terrorism; 55 War in our time: The myth of appeasement; 56 Protection and punishment; 57 Operationalizing the "responsibility to protect"; 58 Kosovo's new status will not erase centuries of Serbian history; 59 Let the Asians push aid to Burma; 60 Burma and the responsibility to protect: First, do more good than harm; 61 If you are an Iraqi, how do I kill thee? 62 Post-Cold War era over, but not US primacy Ramesh Thakur. Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English Derecho internacional Intervención humanitaria Aspectos políticos JZ 6368 T364p 2011 341.5/84 341.584 9789280812077 MiAaPQ 110802 20230411090659.0 9917801175804201 spa