Author profile: Philip Cunliffe

Dr. Philip Cunliffe is Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent. His most recent book is Legions of Peace: UN Peacekeepers from the Global South (Hurst, 2013).

The Responsibility to Protect and the New Liberal Dystopianism

Philip Cunliffe • Feb 16 2014 • Articles

Liberal idealism has been debased by the R2P. The most that can be hoped for from it is a dystopia of erratic global policing and intermittent global law enforcement.

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