Managing Global Order

Children carry their family's belongings as they go to Yida refugee camp in South Sudan outside Tess village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic).

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The United States and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

July 23, 2013, Madeleine K. Albright and Richard Williamson

This report by Madeleine K. Albright and Richard S. Williamson examines R2P, the emerging political norm that aims to protect civilians from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity by preventing them from taking place or taking remedial action when necessary.

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The Managing Global Order program (MGO) is a joint project between CIC, the Brookings Institution and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. The project addresses the challenge of reshaping the international architecture to deal with three related challenges: (i) the rise of newly influential actors on the global stage; (ii) the evolution of transnational and disruptive threats; and (iii) the perceived weakening of US leadership in international systems. Our work focuses on adapting US strategy and international structures to these evolving realities.

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