Part I. Context -- 1. Introduction: theorising global responsibilities / Ramesh Thakur and William Maley -- 2. The evolution of the responsibility to protect: from concept and principle to actionable norm / Gareth Evans -- 3. From the right to persecute to the responsibility to protect: Feuerbachian inversions of rights and responsibilities in state-citizen relations / Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur -- 4. Responsibility to protect and a theory of norm circulation / Amitav Acharya -- Part II. The Responsibility to Protect, Normative Theory, and Global Governance -- 5. Responsibility to protect and world order / Tim Dunne -- 6. International law and the responsibility to protect / Michael Byers -- 7. The Responsibility to protect, multilateralism and international legitimacy / Edward Newman -- 8. Global governance and the responsibility to protect / Abiodun Williams -- 9. International law, the responsibility to protect and international crises / Jean-Marc Coicaud -- 10. The Responsibility to protect and the just war tradition / Alex J. Bellamy -- 11. War is not the answer: the responsibility to protect and military intervention / Jonathan Graubart -- Part III. The Responsibility to Protect and International Social Purposes -- 12. United Nations peacekeeping and the responsibility to protect / Mats Berdal -- 13. Humanitarian law, refugee protection and the responsibility to protect / William Maley -- 14. Is the responsibility to protect doctrine gender-neutral? / Susan Harris Rimmer -- 15. The responsibility to protect: a western idea? / Jacinta O'Hagan -- 16. Colonialism and the responsibility to protect / Siddharth Mallavarapu.