The Geopolitics of Intervention

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This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P. It particularly assesses R2P’s relevance for Asia, which is defined broadly in this book to include West Asia or the Middle East and the region’s emergence as the most severe threat to international order in the form of the Arab Uprisings. While East Asia and South Asia have their share of situations that warrant R2P-justified interventions, it is the conflicts in West Asia that have severely tested the viability of R2P. Has this new norm been effective as a tool for international law and diplomacy? Are there prospects for a tweaking or repositioning of R2P as advocated by some scholars and governments to make the concept more acceptable to the global community, including Southeast Asia? Has the Westphalian doctrine of state sovereignty and non-intervention become superfluous as a result of the rise of R2P? Will a new doctrine of “Eastphalia” or “non-intervention with East Asian characteristics” emerge in its place, led by China as well as like-minded Asian and other states?
This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P. It particularly assesses R2P’s relevance for Asia, which is defined broadly in this book to include West Asia or the Middle East and the region’s emergence as the most severe threat to international order in the form of the Arab Uprisings. While East Asia and South Asia have their share of situations that warrant R2P-justified interventions, it is the conflicts in West Asia that have severely tested the viability of R2P.  Has this new norm been effective as a tool for international law and diplomacy? Are there prospects for a tweaking or repositioning of R2P as advocated by some scholars and governments to make the concept more acceptable to the global community, including Southeast Asia? Has the Westphalian doctrine of state sovereignty and non-intervention become superfluous as a result of the rise of R2P? Will a new doctrine of “Eastphalia” or “non-intervention with East Asian characteristics” emerge in its place, led by China as well as like-minded Asian and other states?
Looks at the state of international politics and diplomacy as it faces its toughest modern-day challenge thrown up by the profound global debate on international humanitarian intervention and the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P Covers some of the world’s most serious post-Cold War conflicts, including those in West Asia or the Middle East, namely the Arab Uprisings Assesses the global dilemma over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts in sovereign states on humanitarian grounds or to uphold the Westphalian doctrine of inviolable borders Adds to the research on R2P’s relevance to Asia - an area that has not been sufficiently explored Outlines possible future trajectories of international intervention and R2P, including the far-reaching implications for world order from the international paralysis over Syria Provokes thinking on whether, out of the turmoil over R2P, the Westphalian concept of sovereignty and non-intervention will give way to “Eastphalia,” or a new idea of non-intervention led by Asian societies Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Yang Razali Kassim

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