The Geopolitics of Intervention Asia and the Responsibility to Protect [Paperback]

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 R2Ps relevance for Asia, which is defined broadly in this book to include West Asia or the Middle East and the regions 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?

Preamble Responsibility to Protect? (R2P) in a flux?

Chapter 1 The Rise of Responsibility While Protecting (RWP)

Chapter 2 The Arab Spring and the P5 Powers

Chapter 3 China as a P5 Player

Chapter 4 China, India, Japan and the emerging Eastphalian Order?

Chapter 5 ASEAN and R2P

Chapter 6 Critiques and Critics of R2P

Chapter 7 Geopolitics of Intervention: Way Forward

Chapter 8 Postscript

Yang Razali Kassim is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Prior to joining RSIS, he was a senior journalist with the Singapore Press Holdings, serving as Regionall<