The Legal System of Responsibility to Protect as a New Form of Humanitarian Military Intervention

This study examines the theory of the “responsibility to protect’, which is‏ ‎the last stage of evolution in the “theory of humanitarian intervention “ , or‏ ‎a new version, which entered the international law after the Earth Summit in‏ ‎This theory has evolved after the urgent need for intervention in many‏ .2005 ‎conflicts, where heinous crimes and human rights abuses were committed.‏ ‎There were many cases of interfering in many conflicts to protect human‏ ‎rights, however, some countries, in many cases, intervened to achieve the‏ ‎goals, objectives, and interests of its own, without being concerned with‏ ‎the protection of human rights, so the effects of the intervention in some‏ ‎disputes were worse than no intervention.‏ ‎From here, the study examined the theory of the “ responsibility to protect”‏ ‎in three parts, the first is related to the stages of its development, the second |‏ ‎in the content of the theory and the legal grounds upon which, and the third‏ ‎which was related to its legitimacy as a prelude to talk about the evaluation‏ ‎and its criticis