Alexander Reichwein is Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. He is also a Co-Speaker of the Norms and Changes in Global Politics research section at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS).

Mischa Hansel is head of the International Cybersecurity (ICS) research group at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg. He is also a Co-Speaker of the Norms and Changes in Global Politics research section at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS).

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Responsibility to Protect - challenged or confirmed? (Mischa Hansel).- Part I. R2P - Institutions, Contestation, Discourse Spaces.- Chapter 2. The international implementation of R2P: norm contestation and its consequences (Gregor Hofmann),- Chapter 3. Forums Do Matter: Examining the Norm Dynamics of the Responsibility to Protect (Anne Peltner).- Chapter 4. R2P: Opening Discursive Spaces for Politics of Protection (Sassan Gholiagha).- Chapter 5. Protection of Basic Human Rights by Exercising Graded Responsibilities ¿ Linking the Responsibility to Protect with the Attribution of Extraterritorial Duties (Daniel Peters).- Part II. R2P in Practice.- Chapter 6. R2P and Norm Localization: China's Influence on the Development of R2P (Johanna Polle).- Chapter 7. Punishing or preventing? The responsibility to protect and the wars in South Sudan (Ole Frahm).- Chapter 8. Rethinking Turkey's Approach to R2P: Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Syrian Civil War 2011-2017 (Volkan Seysane).- Part III. R2P - Promises and Pitfalls.- Chapter 9. The Waning of post-Cold War Western Preponderance in International Norm Politics. Its Impact on the International Protection of People from Domestic Violence (Lothar Brock).- Chapter 10. A dangerous responsibility. Towards a new Authoritarian Interventionism? (Mischa Hansel)