1st Edition
Ethics, Obligation, and the Responsibility to Protect Contesting the Global Power Relations of Accountability
By Mark Busser
Copyright 2019
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book critically examines arguments about ‘obligation’ and ‘responsibility’ in relation to the responsibility to protect (R2P) and situates it within wider moral argumentation concerning the role of culpability, answerability, and human rights in international affairs. It discusses the ways in which R2P has been imagined and contested in order to illuminate some possible trajectories... Read more
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
Biography
Mark Busser is currently Assistant Professor in Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.
