Abstract
This note identifies the veto power as the root of the ineffectiveness of the Security Council and examines ways in which this power is used to thwart international action both within and beyond the Security Council. It will then examine a fairly recent response to this inaction, the development of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, which argues that states have a responsibility to take action in the face of international crises, and evaluate how well poised this doctrine is to respond to this problem.
Recommended Citation
Chelsea Koester,
Looking Beyond R2P for an Answer to inaction in the Security Council,
27 Fla. J. Int'l L.
(2021).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol27/iss3/3
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