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Blood and borders : the responsibility to protect and the problem of the kin-state / edited by Walter Kemp, Vesselin Popovski and Ramesh Thakur.
- Title
- Blood and borders : the responsibility to protect and the problem of the kin-state / edited by Walter Kemp, Vesselin Popovski and Ramesh Thakur.
- Publication
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xii, 258 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Map lines delineating statehood can become blurred by bloodlines of nationhood. Inter-ethnic conflict and genocide have demonstrated the dangers of failing to protect people targeted by fellow citizens. When minority groups in one country are targeted for killings or ethnic cleansing based on their group identity, whose responsibility is it to protect them? In particular, are they owed any protective responsibility by their kin-state? How can cross-border kinship ties strengthen greater pan-national identity across borders without challenging territorially defined national security? As shown by Russia-Georgia conflict over South Ossetia, unilateral intervention by a kin-state can lead to conflict within and between states. The world cannot stand by when minority rights are being trampled, but protection of national minorities should not be used as an excuse to violate state sovereignty and generate inter-state conflict. This book suggests a sensible answer to the kin-state dilemma might come from the formula "neither intervention nor indifference" that recognizes the special bonds but proscribes armed intervention based on the ties of kinship--Publisher's description.
- Alternative Title
- Responsibility to protect and the problem of the kin-state
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The responsibility to protect minorities: is the kin-state a problem or a solution? / Walter Kemp -- The responsibility to protect: a forward-looking agenda / Ramesh Thakur -- The borders of sovereignty: whose responsibility is it to protect national minorities? / Bogdan Aurescu -- Where are the borders' national identity and national security / Walter Kemp -- Minority protection, bilateral mechanisms and responsibility to protect / Elizabeth F. Defeis -- Bilateral instruments and mechanisms to protect "kin-minorities" abroad: the case of Hungary's bilateral agreements with its neighbours and their monitoring through joint intergovernmental commissions / Emma Lantschner -- R2P and kinship in the context of Syria and Lebanon / Joshua Castellino -- Problems and prospects for R2P: the unilateral action of Viet Nam in 1978 / Ho-Ming So Denduangrudee -- The role of Russia as a kin-state in protecting the Russian minority in Ukraine / Olena Shapovalova -- Brazilians in Paraguay: a growing internal problem or a regional issue? / James Tiburcio -- The responsibility to prevent conflicts under R2P: the Nigeria Bakassi situation / Rhuks Ako -- Blood across borders: the role of the kin-state in minority protection / Vesselin Popovski and Nicholas Turner.
- ISBN
- 9789280811964 (pbk.)
- 9280811967 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2011021068
- OCLC
- 696099919
- SCSB-12385991
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library