Overview
- Looks at the state of international politics and diplomacy as it faces its toughest modern-day challenge thrown up by the profound global debate on international humanitarian intervention and the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P
- Covers some of the world’s most serious post-Cold War conflicts, including those in West Asia or the Middle East, namely the Arab Uprisings
- Assesses the global dilemma over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts in sovereign states on humanitarian grounds or to uphold the Westphalian doctrine of inviolable borders
- Adds to the research on R2P’s relevance to Asia - an area that has not been sufficiently explored
- Outlines possible future trajectories of international intervention and R2P, including the far-reaching implications for world order from the international paralysis over Syria
- Provokes thinking on whether, out of the turmoil over R2P, the Westphalian concept of sovereignty and non-intervention will give way to “Eastphalia,” or a new idea of non-intervention led by Asian societies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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Book Title: The Geopolitics of Intervention
Book Subtitle: Asia and the Responsibility to Protect
Authors: Yang Razali Kassim
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-48-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-4585-47-7Published: 11 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4585-48-4Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 106
Topics: International Relations, International Political Economy