The Legality of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Under the Un Charter: Use of Force, Mass Atrocities, and Collective Securi (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004756274)

Vendor: Wasantha Seneviratne
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Format: Hardcover
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The Legality of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Under the Un Charter: Use of Force, Mass Atrocities, and Collective Securi

$190.00

The Legality of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Under the Un Charter: Use of Force, Mass Atrocities, and Collective Securi

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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Can international law reconcile the paradox between sovereign equality, the prohibition on the use of force, and the moral imperative to prevent mass atrocity crimes?
This book offers a rigorous analysis of the legality of humanitarian intervention and evaluates the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a normative alternative to unilateral force. Drawing on UN Charter interpretation, state practice, case law, and developments from Kosovo to Libya and Syria, it examines how law, power, and legitimacy interact in such interventions. By proposing lawful pathways for collective action when the Security Council is deadlocked, the book advances a principled framework for atrocity prevention within the UN system.

Author: Wasantha Seneviratne
ISBN-10: 9004756272
ISBN-13: 9789004756274
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2026
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.88d
By Wasantha Seneviratne
By Wasantha Seneviratne
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Wasantha Seneviratne is Senior Professor and Chair of Public and International Law at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles on public international law, humanitarian law and human rights, and has edited academic volumes. She serves as the Sri Lanka State Volume Editor for the Encyclopaedia of International Law in Asia (Brill, 2023) and is the Sri Lanka State Rapporteur for the Asian Yearbook of International Law. Professor Seneviratne currently serves as a Member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka.

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