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The Responsibility to Protect in International Law : Philosophical Investigations.

This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with subsequent inte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oman, Natalie, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Routledge, 2019.
Colección:Routledge research in international law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; Scope; Organization; 1. A philosophical underpinning for a state's "responsibility to protect"; The responsibility to protect; The responsibility to prevent; The capabilities approach; The capabilities approach as a philosophical foundation for a state's responsibility to protect; Conclusions; 2. The role of a sensus communis in a theory of judgement; Note on the history of the appeal of these two qualities; Kant's theory of aesthetic judgement
  • Arendt's theory of judgementArendtian theories of judgement: Disch, Benhabib, and Young; The validity of judgements; Conclusion; 3. Human security and Hannah Arendt's "right to have rights"; Hannah Arendt and statelessness; The significance of statelessness; The right to have rights; The first "right"; The having of rights; Why "rights"?; The transformation of international law; Human security; The responsibility to protect; Arendtian observations on human security; Conclusion; 4. The scope of the "responsibility to prevent" atrocity crimes: A remit for intervention?
  • The responsibility to protectThe responsibility to prevent; The compass of root cause prevention; Triggering conditions for exercise of the responsibility to prevent; The liberal peace and the responsibility to prevent; General conclusions; 5. The international legal character of the responsibility to protect; I The responsibility to protect: major variants and common themes; II General principles; III Theoretical interlude: the "how"; IV A preliminary genealogy of the third category of general principles in the Charter era; V Human rights and human rights protection norms
  • VI The responsibility to protect as a general principle6. Distant strangers and our responsibility to protect; Justice and the place of persons; Cultural relativism; O'Neill and distant strangers; Implications of O'Neill's argument; The duty to assist and the responsibility to protect; Agency and the responsibility to protect; Recommendations and conclusions; Bibliography; Index