Overview
- Examines the cosmopolitan ethical tenets underpinning R2P specifically in the context of a cosmopolitan approach to human protection
- Contextualizes and assesses R2P’s legal cogency within the framework of Habermas’ constitutional cosmopolitan approach
- Outlines a series of reforms that could perpetuate the limited moral and legal progress made towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection
Part of the book series: New Security Challenges (NSECH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- R2P
- responsibility to protect
- Jurgen Habermas
- global cosmpolitan agenda
- human protection
- human rights
- civilian protection
- conflict
- conflict studies
- legal processes in R2P
- international law
- cosmopolitan theory
- warfare
- humanitarian intervention
- globalisation
- global justice
- global constitutionalism
- ethics of R2P
- constitutional cosmopolitan approach
About this book
This book conceptualizes Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) as part of a global cosmopolitan agenda, drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas, and argues that R2P is reflective of a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection. The author also proposes a framework of analysis that includes a strong legal dimension in order to advance reforms to the international legal, political and military structures in order to better prevent humanitarian crises and protect civilians in times of conflict. The volume explores the cosmopolitan, moral and legal progress that has occurred—and could yet occur—under R2P as the approach to human protection transitions in the Post-Cold War era.
Reviews
“Wyatt provides a compelling engagement with the ethical tenets underpinning the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). To do this, he critically analyses the relationship between the R2P and cosmopolitanism through a focus on legal and moral developments in the post-Cold War era.At a time when the R2P appears to be in crisis, the book offers an optimistic outlook. It argues that the R2P provides a platform for grounding cosmopolitan ethical norms whilst stressing tentative progress has been made in advancing a constitutional cosmopolitan approach. In a world seemingly suffering from ‘crisis fatigue’ the book provides a much needed re-engagement with cosmopolitan ethics.” (Adrian Gallagher, Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Leeds, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Samuel James Wyatt is a civil servant in the UK. His research interests include cosmopolitan theory and practice, international law, warfare (in particular the conflicts in Libya and Syria), human rights, humanitarian intervention, global constitutionalism, globalisation and global justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Responsibility to Protect and a Cosmopolitan Approach to Human Protection
Authors: Samuel James Wyatt
Series Title: New Security Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00701-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00700-3Published: 02 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13144-9Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00701-0Published: 21 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-0329
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 275
Topics: International Security Studies, Conflict Studies, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Military and Defence Studies, Human Rights