Limits of Common Humanity : Motivating the Responsibility to Protect in a Changing Global Order

Samuel Jarvis

ISBN 10: 0228010780 / ISBN 13: 9780228010784

Verlag: Mcgill-Queen's University Press Jun 2022, 2022

Beschreibung

Neuware - The Limits of Common Humanity provides an interdisciplinary response to theorise the role of 'humanity' as a motivational concept. Jarvis examines the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept, highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780228010784

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Limits of Common Humanity : Motivating the Responsibility to Protect in a Changing Global Order
• Verlag: Mcgill-Queen's University Press Jun 2022
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0228010780
• ISBN-13: 9780228010784
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 226B x 150 H x 15 T Millimeter Breite: 226 mm, Höhe: 150 mm, Tiefe: 15 mm
• Gewicht: 295 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

What motivates states to protect populations threatened by mass atrocities beyond their own borders? Most often, states and their representatives appeal to the principle of common humanity, acknowledging a conscience-shocking quality that demands a moral response. But though the idea of a common humanity is powerful, the question remains: to what extent is it effective in motivating action? The Limits of Common Humanity provides an ambitious interdisciplinary response to this question, theorizing the role of humanity as a motivational concept by building on insights from international relations, political philosophy, and international law. Through this analysis, Samuel Jarvis examines the influence the concept of humanity has had on the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) commitment, while highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice. By providing a new framework for thinking about how political, legal, and moral arguments interact during the process of collective decision-making, Jarvis explores the contradictory ways in which states approach the protection of human beings from mass atrocity crimes, both domestically and internationally. In the context of a rapidly changing global order, The Limits of Common Humanity is a timely reappraisal of the R2P concept and its future application, arguing for a more politically motivated response to human protection that moves beyond an appeal for morality.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Samuel Jarvis is lecturer in international relations at York St John University.