Description
Over the last fourteen years, the institutionalization of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been continuing under the roof of the United Nations (UN) vis-à-vis the discussions in the literature regarding R2P’s death after the cases of Libya and Syria. Despite the growing number of criticisms against R2P due to controversial implementations and/or lack of implementation, in the meanwhile, under the UN General Assembly (UNGA), R2P has obtained the status of a formal agenda item three times, first in 2009 and then consecutively in 2018 and 2019. In this vein, this article first studies the formal debates in the UNGA in order to position R2P and its implementation under the roof the UN. Then, based on sample cases, it focuses on the practices of the UN Security Council for the purpose of analyzing the impact of the debates in the actual practices of the UN. Following from this, the article provides a critical overview of the gap between promises and action, and discusses the future of R2P.
