The state duty to protect is one of the three pillars of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Hu-man Rights...This workshop aims at taking an international relations perspective on the business and human rights debate. More precisely, it wants to look at the emergence, diffusion and impact of the state duty to protect through the lens of grand and mid‐range international relations theories. The workshop shall also include contributions from legal, political science or normative perspectives that can enrich the debate within international relations...Please apply by sending a 300-word abstract to the Convenor, Andreas Graf ([email protected]) by March 15 2013.