Events
LAWN/IRS Talk: J. Luis Rodr铆guez, "Orders to Protect Latin America, Humanitarian Intervention, and Constraints on Great Power"
The book asks why Latin American states, long the champions of nonintervention, helped build the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This norm could authorize military force in response to humanitarian crises. Drawing on diplomatic records and interviews, it shows how Brazil, Chile, and Mexico shaped R2P鈥檚 terms, making collective responses to atrocities possible while building safeguards against abuse. From these cases, I develop a framework I call 鈥渞epublican ordering,鈥� arguing that weaker states seek rules and institutions that effectively address security challenges and constrain powerful states regardless of their intentions. This challenges accounts of international order that rest on great-power restraint. The argument runs from a century of Latin American diplomatic thought through to today鈥檚 debates over nuclear and autonomous weapons.