Responsibility to Protect and Rising Asian Powers

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is the national and international responsibility protect populations against mass atrocities. This article discusses prospects for implementation of R2P objectives in a world where Asian powers rise. It focuses not only on prevention assistance but also decisive action, most controversial aspect R2P, tied UN Security Council China resides as permanent member with veto. The Indian position highlights, supplemented some comments, selected East states. concludes that rise does threaten protect. Voluntary threatened, coercive elements might be. Unless more clear criteria are established possible use military force, mandates from which allows this will probably be rare. Particularly, oppose interventions may forward regime change targeted