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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Articles:
Annan, Kofi. “Two concepts of sovereignty.” The Economist, September 18, 1999.
Ash, Timothy Garton. “The case against aid at gunpoint.” Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2008, Opinion section.
Cohen, Roger. “African Genocide Averted.” New York Times, March 3, 2008, Opinion section.
De Waal, Alex. “Darfur and the failure of the responsibility to protect.” International Affairs (Nov. 2007).
Evans, Gareth. “Russia and the ‘responsibility to protect’.” Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2008, Opinion section.
Groves, Steven. “The U.S. Should Reject the U.N. ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Doctrine.” Backgrounder 2130 (May 1, 2008).
Hoge, Warren. “Intervention, Hailed as a Concept, Is Shunned in Practice.” New York Times, January 20, 2008, World section.
Hubert, Don. “The Responsibility to Protect: Preventing and Halting Crimes Against Humanity.”
Kuperman, Alan J. “Humanitarian Hazard: Revisiting Doctrines of Intervention.” Harvard International Review 26 (1), Spring 2004.
Kuperman, Alan J. “The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans.” International Studies Quarterly 52 (2008): 49-80.
Kuperman, Alan J. “Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect.” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Winter/Spring 2009.
Malcomson, Scott. “When to Intervene: Two books discuss the humanitarian ‘responsibility to protect.’” Review of The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War, by Conor Foley, and The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, by Gareth Evans. New York Times Book Review, December 14, 2008.
Stahn, Carsten. “Responsibility to Protect: Political Rhetoric or Emerging Legal Norm?” American Journal of International Law 101, No. 1 (Jan. 2007): 99-120.
Books:
Bass, Gary J. Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian
Intervention. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Evans, Gareth. The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity
Crimes Once and For All. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute Press,
2008.
Foley, Conor. The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War. London: Verso, 2008.
Ikenberry, John G. and Anne-Marie Slaughter. Forging a World of Liberty
Under Law. Princeton Project on National Security, 2006.
Traub, James. The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of
American World Power. New York: Picador, 2007.
Interviews:
Kreisler, Harry. “Conversation with Stephen D. Krasner.” Conversations with History, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, March 31, 2003. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Krasner/krasner-con1.html (retrieved February 11, 2009).
“What Became of ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ Principle?” Frontline: On Our Watch. PBS, November 20, 2007. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darfur/themes/responsibility.html (retrieved September 25, 2008).
Reports:
"A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility." Report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. United Nations, 2004.
“Implementing the responsibility to protect: Report of the Secretary-General.” United Nations General Assembly, 2009.
“The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.” Ottawa: International Development Research Center, 2001. http://www.iciss.ca/pdf/Commission-Report.pdf
Speeches:
Cohen, Roberta. “The Responsibility to Protect: The Case of Sudan.” Speech at American University, Washington College of Law, September 26, 2008.
Evans, Gareth. “From Principle to Practice—Implementing the Responsibility to Protect.” Keynote Address to Egmont (Royal Institute of International Affairs) Conference and Expert Seminar, Brussels, April 26, 2007. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4802
Evans, Gareth. “The Limits of State Sovereignty: The Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century.” Eighth Neelam Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture, International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo, July 29, 2007. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4967
