The Responsibility to Protect Doctrine and the United Nations

Did the R2P Doctrine Create an Opportunity for Western Powers to act Inaptly. ? Chandler argues that the invasion and occupation of Iraq highlighted the dynamic behind the concept of R2P. He states that the R2P that emerged in the period after the Iraq invasion reflected more intensely the crisis that that emerged within the ICISS report giving Western governments some form of authority and confidence. He argues that the ICISS report aimed to restore confidence to the UN however it just made R2P appear not as a ‘non-bureaucratic ’ and a non-legalistic’ justification for intervention. There is currently a focus on good governance as a form of prevention and also on institutional reform to take the emphasis away vast transformations of the potential vision of social, economic and political change. Thus it is seen that, Western powers appear to be weak to influence events. Moreover, any form of responsibility is killed once there is an understanding that these mass a trocities are created under the structure of institutional frameworks. â€Å"The blame for recurring crises is located narrowly at the level of post-colonial state societies and political elites, rather than in any policy interventions (intended or unintended) by external actors.† (Chandler: 2009, 30) There is now a form of institutionalising R2P through the international courts however this does not reflect on western leaders. The international Criminal Courts have only looked into cases from the Global South.Show MoreRelatedEssay about Legitimacy of the Canadian Intervention in Libya1527 Words   |  7 PagesThe legitimacy of the Canadian intervention in the Libyan conflict will be analyzed by three criteria, which include, the threat of massacre, the support from nations, and the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. First, the threat of extreme terror and massacre loomed over Libya. 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