Alex J. Bellamy Explained

Alexander J. Bellamy (born 1975)^[1] is an academic who directs the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and is a professor in the department of peace and conflict studies at University of Queensland.^[2]

Bellamy's views on R2P have been criticized by Jeremy Moses, who writes that according to Bellamy's writings on the subject, "mass atrocities take place exclusively in authoritarian states, not in the confines of liberal democracies like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, or, perhaps, even Israel", while Western powers can be faulted for failure to intervene but not perpetration or complicity in such atrocities. Moses writes that the Gaza genocide is proof that there is not "a massive gap between government by atrocity and liberal democracy" as Bellamy claims, but instead that democracies are capable of genocide.^[3]

Works

• Book: Bellamy . Alex J. . Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq . 2006 . Wiley . 978-0-7456-3282-7 . en.
• Book: Bellamy . Alex J. . Responsibility to Protect . 2009 . Polity . 978-0-7456-4348-9 . en.
• Book: Bellamy . Alex J. . Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect: From Words to Deeds . 2010 . Routledge . 978-1-136-86864-1 . en.
• Bellamy . Alex J. . Williams . Paul D. . The new politics of protection? Côte d'Ivoire, Libya and the responsibility to protect . International Affairs . 2011 . 87 . 4 . 825–850 . 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.01006.x.
• Book: Bellamy . Alex J. . Massacres and Morality: Mass Atrocities in an Age of Civilian Immunity . 2012 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-928842-7 . en.
• Book: Bellamy . Alex J. . The Responsibility to Protect: A Defense . 2015 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-870411-9 . en.
• Book: Bellamy . Alex J. . East Asia's Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities . 2017 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-877793-9 . en.
• Book: Bellamy . Alex J. . World Peace and How We Can Achieve It . 2019 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-883352-9 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: VIAF Results.
2. Web site: Professor Alexander Bellamy . polsis.uq.edu.au . 16 March 2021 . en . 16 March 2021.
3. Moses . Jeremy . Gaza and the Political and Moral Failure of the Responsibility to Protect . Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding . 2024 . 18 . 2 . 211–215 . 10.1080/17502977.2024.2304987. free .