Ethics, Obligation, and the Responsibility to Protect: Contesting the Global Power Relations of Accountability

ISBN-13: 9780367728588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Mark Busser

Opis

This book critically examines arguments about ‘obligation’ and ‘responsibility’ in relation to the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and situates it within wider moral argumentation concerning the role of culpability, answerability, and human rights in international affairs.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Ambiguous Concept of Responsibility  2. Modes of Responsibility and International Relations Theory  3. Fields of Responsibility and the Performativity of Moral Argument  4. The Responsibility to Protect and the Reframing of Sovereignty  5. The Responsibility to Protect at the UN World Summit  6. The Politics of Responsibility and Balancing the R2P  7. R2P Norm ‘Competitors’ and Critical Norm Translation  8. Debating the Responsibility to Protect  9. The Responsibility to Protect and the Reframing of Sovereignty

O autorze

Mark Busser is currently Assistant Professor in Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.