This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm.

Ramesh Thakur is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and was a Responsibility to Protect Commissioner. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the UN, R2P and global governance.

1. Introduction 2. The Responsibility to Protect at 15 Part I: Origins, Meaning and Evolution 3. High-level Panels 4. Rwanda, Kosovo and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty 5. From the Right to Persecute to the Responsibility to Protect: Feuerbachian Inversions of Rights and Responsibilities in State-Citizen Relations 6. From Humanitarian Intervention to R2P: Cosmetic or Consequential? Part II: Implentation Controversies 7. R2P after Libya and Syria: Engaging Emerging Powers 8. R2P's 'Structural' Problems: A Response to Roland Paris 9. The UN Secretary-General and the Forgotten Third R2P Responsibility Part III: Gaps and Demands For Atrocity Protection 10. Protection Gaps for Civilian Victims of Political Violence 11. Atrocity Crimes and Global Governance 12. Looking Back to Look Ahead