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Author Archives: Dwayne Menezes and Simon Schofield

Dwayne Ryan Menezes is the HSC's Director of Strategic Partnerships. Simon Schofield is a Senior Fellow and Senior Communications Assistant to the Chief Executive.

Perfidious Putin and the R2P Straw Man

As declared by Russia Today, Russian troops were deployed to Crimea ‘only to protect human rights’. The Crimean issue unfolding at present was compared to the secession of Kosovo, and daring to deny the illusory similarities between these two wildly different conflicts is described as ‘rewriting the rulebook’ on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine.

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