Responsibility to Protect facing biggest test

Published March 30, 2011

The Responsibility to Protect has received the biggest boost of its young existence with the UN resolution authorizing military intervention to protect Libyans from President Moammar Gaddafi. But several of R2P's most prominent authors and advocates say this is also the biggest test the doctrine has ever faced.

For that reason, there is a sense that how Libya plays out—including whether countries...

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