Patrick Butchard is Lecturer in Law at Edge Hill University.
This is an original account of such an important issue in the field and should be key reading for students, academics, and practitioners across the spectrum hoping to continue an exploration of legal alternatives for R2P implementation in the face of UN Security Council failure. -- Blake Lawrinson * Responsibility to Protect Student Journal * The book is an important contribution to the R2P debate, one which seeks to expand our way of thinking in regard to R2P response, and offers promise that Council inaction need not equate to R2P's third pillar being left stalled while human suffering continues. -- Richard Illingworth, University of Leeds * Global Responsibility to Protect *