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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter 1/Introduction: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and a Cosmopolitan Approach to Human Protection
• 2. Chapter 2: The Global Ethics of a Cosmopolitan Approach to Human Protection
• 3. Chapter 3: Kant, Habermas and the Constitutionalisation of International Law
• 4. Chapter 4: The Responsibility to Protect and Cosmopolitan Human Protection
• 5. Chapter 5: The Responsibility to Protect and Cosmopolitan Global Justice
• 6. Chapter 6: The Responsibility to Protect and Habermas' Theory of Constitutionalisation with a 'Cosmopolitan Purpose'
• 7. Chapter 7: The Responsibility to Protect, Imperialism and Military Intervention in Libya
• 8. Chapter 8: Towards an 'Even More' Cosmopolitan Approach to Human Protection: Proposals on Extending the Cosmopolitan Trend
• 9. Chapter 9/Conclusion: The Responsibility to Protect and the Move Towards a More Cosmopolitan Approach to Human Protection.