Loing before the big power conflicts of the 2020s, many international relations theorists were focused on how to use international law as a framework for intervention to protect human rights and human dignity. From these thinkers emerged R2P, the Responsibility to Protect, which became a broad idea that was used to justify humanitarian interventions that theoretically and practically violated the sovereignty of internationally recognized states.

Dr. Sidita Kushi, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bridgewater State, joins us today to discuss some of the flaws built into the historical applications of R2P. This is also the topic of her forthcoming book: From Kosovo to Darfur: The Regional Biases within Humanitarian Military Interventionism. Dr. Kushi explains how she created and leveraged groundbreaking data which systematizes histories of humanitarian interventions following the Cold War.

Pre-order From Kosovo to Darfur!: https://www.amazon.com/Kosovo-Darfur-Regional-Humanitarian-Interventionism/dp/0472077449?ref_=ast_author_dp

Her First Book (Dying By the Sword): https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Sword-Militarization-Foreign-Policy/dp/0197581439

R2P for Me but not for Thee