Sovereignty as Responsibility, Responsibility to Protect and International Order: On Responsibility, Communal Crime Prevention and International Law

Abstract

This paper examines the international order envisioned by Responsibility to Protect (R2P). With a heuristic tool it argues that particular international activities can be perceived as communal crime prevention efforts against internationally condemned crimes. Second, it proposes how the R2P framework challenges the wider international order. For example, the full implementation of the world envisioned from within the R2P framework might require a significant functional transformation of international law. R2P is not only a re-characterization of sovereignty as responsibility but an alternative world order.