Glanville and Pattison examine how states should prioritize their global responsibilities while facing multiple ongoing and emerging challenges, from climate change to global disease, mass atrocities to forced displacement, humanitarian crises to entrenched global poverty.

Luke Glanville is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University. He is the author of several books including Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities (Princeton University Press, 2021) and Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
James Pattison is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. His publications include The Alternatives to War: From Sanctions to Nonviolence (OUP, 2018), The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies (OUP, 2014), and Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene? (OUP, 2012).

• Acknowledgements


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Which Atrocities? On Effectiveness


• 3: Global Health: On Disadvantage


• 4: Which Refugees? On National Interests


• 5: Global Poverty: On Culpability


• 6: Prevention or Reaction? On Urgency


• 7: Climate Change: On Diversification


• 8: War: On Opportunity Costs


• 9: Conclusion


• Bibliography