This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal
idea of the 'Responsibility to Protect'. The 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 and on ideas of
responsibility and ethical relationality in the work of Jacques
Derrida and Judith Butler, the book develops a concept of
"irresponsibility". This concept is then juxtaposed to the dominant
Responsibility to Protect discourse. By exposing and acknowledging
"the sites of irresponsibility" of the Responsibility to Protect,
the book argues that irresponsibility itself can become the
condition of ethical responsibility and the possibility of justice.
This original approach to an increasingly important topic will
prove invaluable to those working in international law,
international relations, politics and legal theory.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
First published: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Angeliki Samara
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
222 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-53282-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Law >
International law >
General
|
LSN: |
0-367-53282-4 |
Barcode: |
9780367532826 |
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