The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the United Nations' most powerful institutional body, charged with the “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.” The main instrument through which the Council asserts this power is its resolutions, specifically by using resolution text to attribute responsibility. The UNSC uses responsibility language to assign tasks, identify accountability under international law, or reflect the Council's normative interpretation of political principles. Yet we lack a comprehensive empirical description of responsibility attributions in UNSC resolutions. We address this gap by providing an original dataset of the full text of all UNSC resolutions between 1946 and 2020. We use this data to show that the Council has significantly increased responsibility attributions since the end of the Cold War, but only for a very specific subset of terms, targeting predominantly states and individuals. We further demonstrate how the data can inform debates about the timing and status of the “responsibility to protect” as an international norm. The data and findings provide a helpful starting point for many future research endeavors, including the role of member states in the UNSC, quantitative and qualitative research on UNSC decision-making processes, or topic development of the UNSC agenda in general.

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联合国安理会的责任语言，1946 年至 2020 年

联合国安理会（UNSC）是联合国最强大的机构，担负着“维护国际和平与安全的首要责任”。安理会行使这一权力的主要手段是其决议，特别是通过使用决议案文来确定责任。联合国安理会使用责任语言来分配任务、确定国际法规定的责任或反映安理会对政治原则的规范性解释。然而，我们缺乏对联合国安理会决议中责任归属的全面实证描述。我们通过提供 1946 年至 2020 年间所有联合国安理会决议全文的原始数据集来解决这一差距。我们使用这些数据来表明，自冷战结束以来，安理会显着增加了责任归属，但仅限于非常具体的情况。术语子集，主要针对国家和个人。我们进一步展示了数据如何为有关“保护责任”作为国际规范的时间和地位的辩论提供信息。这些数据和研究结果为许多未来的研究工作提供了有益的起点，包括成员国在联合国安理会中的作用、对联合国安理会决策过程的定量和定性研究，或联合国安理会总体议程的主题发展。