ABSTRACT
The post-Cold War international society has been, a solidarist experiment in that a clear normative agenda under US unipolarity emerged that replicates western, liberal norms. A noticeable tendency in the works that fall within the English School since the end of the Cold War has been its preoccupation with debates about humanitarian intervention. Starting with the 1992 An Agenda for Peace, through to the advent of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine in 2001 which was later endorsed by the UN in 2005, the issue of rights protection and meaningful doctrines for humanitarian intervention has come a long way. Produced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, R2P suggests that states can no longer hide behind the excuse of sovereignty when it comes to averting humanitarian disaster. The ongoing transition to post-American international society is going to impact a number of issues within the society of states, perhaps none so much as human rights and humanitarian intervention.
