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The responsibility to protect concept

When it comes to talk about responsibility to protect, we got different opinion about the subject as it is seen as a Trojan horse in the scholars view. Even if people and peace should prevail in a liberal view, this way to see international system is not shared by all scholars. This is just a way to see things in international system as the conflicts nowadays cannot be seen so limited. Responsibility to protect come to argument that the international system cannot be seen anymore as an anarchic system where the egoism of the human being prevails, where the power and the sovereignty is more important that the citizens. Even if responsibility to protect is a concept of prioritize the right of humanitarian intervention, we can see this concept failed to take actions on large scale as others expect to do, in cases like Rwandan Genocide, Kosovo and even nowadays with Syrian case. Even, since the end of the cold war, on the international scene is present a debate about peacekeeping on the world scale and this is dominated by this concept of responsibility to protect and is explained as the right of the people to be protected in front of the threats of an anti-civic state. The global north claimed the liberal aspects of the international relationships as peace as a norm, power of democracy and free market. The responsibility to protect can be seen in a liberal way if we look at first at the negotiation and sanctions before interventions. The international system wants to mediate with the parts of the conflict. After 11 September, peace thesis and also security views changed and the scholars got different ways to see the intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan
In the light of this report and broader developments in international security in the wake of September 11, this essay suggests that rather than a moral shift away from the rights of sovereignty, the dominance of the liberal peace thesis, in fact, reflects the new balance of power in the international sphere. Justifications for new interventionist norms as a framework for liberal peace are as dependent on the needs of Realpolitik as was the earlier doctrine of sovereign equality and non-intervention.

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