Beyond the Responsibility to Protect in International Law

Name: Beyond the Responsibility to Protect in International Law
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Beyond the Responsibility to Protect in International LawAn Ethics of Irresponsibility\nAuthor(s): Angeliki Samara\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367429706, 978-0367429706\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the Responsibility to Protect.\n\nThe idea that the international community has a responsibility to protect populations at risk has become the prominent mode and structure of address in response to mass human atrocities, gross human rights violations, and large-scale loss of life. Although the \""international community\"" of liberal international law and of legal cosmopolitanism for the most part projects a self-assured collective project, this book maintains that it transforms global ethical responsibility into a project of governance, management, and control. Pursuing this argument, and drawing on critical legal literature, critical international relations an.