Introduction: Norms and laws in international relations -- Non-intervention in international relations : a case study -- Kosovo, humanitarian intervention and the challenge of world order / with Albrecht Schnabel -- Global norms and international humanitarian law : an Asian perspective -- Intervention, sovereignty and the responsibility to protect : experiences from ICISS -- In defence of the responsibility to protect -- Collective security and the use of force : reflections on the report of the high-level panel on threats, challenges and change -- The responsibility to protect and prosecute : the parallel erosion of sovereignty and impunity / with Vesselin Popovski -- R2P : from idea to norm--and action? / with Thomas G. Weiss -- The responsbility to protect and the North-South divide -- R2P and the protection of civilians in armed conflict -- Conclusion: Normative constestation, incoherence and inconsistency.