Volume 3:1 ✦ Articles Legal Basis of the Responsibility of a State to Protect Its Population in International Law Vol. 3 No. 1 ✦ February 2017 ✦ The modern international law based on the assumption that a state is a sovereign unit but with certain limitations to action inside and outside state. The responsibility to protect is one of those limitations … Liubashenko Viacheslav Igorovych