'Over the last decade, Ramesh Thakur has been the most thoughtful scholarly and policy voice on the pluses and minuses of military intervention for human protection purposes. In these penetrating essays, he lays out not only the dilemmas but also the ways that the emerging norm of the responsibility to protect permits critics-be they from the global South or North-to pursue their pragmatic and principled impulses to come to the rescue.'
Thomas G. Weiss, The City University of New York
Ramesh Thakur is widely acknowledged as one of the fathers of R2P, next only to Gareth Evans, his close colleague in that critical enterprise. In this powerful collection of essays spanning two decades of his writings, he demonstrates a deep and abiding commitment to protecting victims of atrocity crimes while navigating through the often competing pulls of North-South and scholar-practitioner perspectives.' Martti Ahtisaari
'Ramesh Thakur's essays comprehensively track the evolution and impact of the doctrine that has begun to fundamentally change the way the world thinks about mass atrocity crimes. This book will intrigue, and be of real value to, both practical policymakers and those whose interests lie more generally in normative and conceptual issues at the intersection of scholarship and policy.' Gareth Evans, Co-Chair, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
'In these penetrating essays, Ramesh Thakur lays out not only the dilemmas but also the ways that the emerging norm of the responsibility to protect permits critics-be they from the global South or North-to pursue their pragmatic and principled impulses to come to the rescue.' - Thomas G. Weiss, The Graduate Center, CUNY
'In this powerful collection of essays spanning two decades of his writings, Ramesh Thakur demonstrates a deep and abiding commitment to protecting victims of atrocity crimes while navigating through the often competing pulls of North-South and scholar-practitioner perspectives.' - Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman, Crisis Management Initiative
'Ramesh Thakur's essays comprehensively track the evolution and impact of the doctrine that has begun to fundamentally change the way the world thinks about mass atrocity crimes. This book will intrigue, and be of real value to, both practical policymakers and academics interested in normative and conceptual issues.' - Gareth Evans, Co-Chair, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
'A good overview of the debates around humanitarian intervention associated with the NATO campaign in Kosovo, the genesis of the R2P doctrine and the doctrine's progressive development.' - International Affairs
'For those not familiar with Thakur's work, this book undoubtedly represents an R2P tour de force and a 'greatest hits' collection that is worthy of a place in any R2P collection.' - Adrian M. Gallagher, University of Leicester, Political Studies Review, Vol 10:3, Sept. 2012
