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The responsibility to protect: A long view (2017)
Book Chapter
Morris, J. (2017). The responsibility to protect: A long view. In A. Hehir, & R. W. Murray (Eds.), Protecting human rights in the 21st Century (231-248). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

The responsibility not to veto: A responsibility too far? (2016)
Book Chapter
Morris, J., & Wheeler, N. (2016). The responsibility not to veto: A responsibility too far?. In A. J. Bellamy, & T. Dunne (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect (227-248). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.013.13

The responsibility to protect (R2P) and the question of UN Security Council veto constraint are intimately linked, but whilst the R2P has become increasingly embedded in diplomatic discourse and practice, the idea that in relation to it the Council’s... Read More about The responsibility not to veto: A responsibility too far?.

Law, Politics and the Use of Force (2013)
Book Chapter
Morris, J. (2013). Law, Politics and the Use of Force. Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (96 - 114). (4th). Oxford University Press

Human welfare in a world of states: reassessing the balance of responsibility (2012)
Book Chapter
Morris, J., & Wheeler, N. (2012). Human welfare in a world of states: reassessing the balance of responsibility. In J. Connelly, & J. Hayward (Eds.), The Withering of the Welfare State : Regression (175-192). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349230_11

The welfare of people and their division into states are inextricably linked. As Robert Jackson observes, about at least one thing most political theorists agree: If the good life is to be obtained in this mortal world it can only be obtained within... Read More about Human welfare in a world of states: reassessing the balance of responsibility.

Law, power and force in an unbalanced world (2005)
Book Chapter
Morris, J. (2005). Law, power and force in an unbalanced world. In R. Burchill, N. D. White, & J. Morris (Eds.), International conflict and security law: essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey (286-313). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495137.016

© Cambridge University Press 2005. Introduction: Hilaire McCoubrey and I collaborated extensively during his time at Hull, producing a co-authored book and a number of journal articles. Though identified with different disciplines and working in diff... Read More about Law, power and force in an unbalanced world.

Normative innovation and the great powers (2004)
Book Chapter
Morris, J. (2004). Normative innovation and the great powers. In A. J. Bellamy (Ed.), International society and its critics (265 - 282). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199265208.003.0016

In this final chapter, The author asks whether the shift from a multipolar to unipolar society of states has led to normative change in international society, using the norm prohibiting the use of force as a case study, and arguing that although mate... Read More about Normative innovation and the great powers.