The Responsibility to Protect and a Cosmopolitan Approach to Human Protection

• Main Author: Wyatt, Samuel James (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Security Challenges
• Subjects: Security, International.; Peace.; International humanitarian law.; Politics and war.; Human rights.; International Security Studies.; Conflict Studies.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Military and Defence Studies.; Human Rights.

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...