India and the Responsibility to Protect
Edition: First edition.
Series: Rethinking Asia and International Relations
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781315563268
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention; Responsibility to protect (International law); Foreign relations; Philosophy; Security Studies; Pol & Intl Relns; Asian Politics; Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties; African & Third World Politics; South Asia; Droit d'ingérence humanitaire; Responsabilité de protéger (Droit international); Relations extérieures; Philosophie; Diplomatic relations
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 CÃ´te 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."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction India and the Responsibility to Protect; 1 Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Before 2011; 2 Discourses, Norms and Conceptual Models; 3 India and Humanitarian Intervention, and R2P, Before 2011; 4 India and the Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire; 5 India and the Crisis in Libya; 6 India and the Crisis in Syria; Conclusion India and the Responsibility to Protect after the Crises in Côte d'Ivoire, Libya and Syria; Bibliography; Index