IS 200 Lecture 10: IS 200 Week 10 Lecture Notes
4 Dec 2016
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Security council used language of r2p to authorize nato intervention, no-fly zones for protection of civilians. Turned many countries against r2p (or made them more wary) Gareth evans credits r2p for the issue in kenya is was a success, he argues. Difficult to asses if it has made much of an impact evans. A big part of r2p is supposed to be about prevention. He argues that you can"t know for sure when something was prevented (because success here counts as something not happening) R2p as a doctrine has 3 pillars prevent, react, rebuild. Use of military force is only part of the reaction pillar. There is a range of techniques that a state can use (economic sanctions, travel bans, arms embargoes) All of those are seen as coercive diplomacy. Libya it was seen as not much time before the mass atrocity would occur, a day if not hours.
