The Responsibility to Protect in International Law

Philosophical Investigations

Natalie Oman

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English

Routledge
18 December 2019

Political science & theory; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Public international law

Series: Routledge Research in International Law

"This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with subsequent interpretations of the responsibility to protect advocated by the United Nations through its human protection agenda, and reviews the dangers and inconsistencies inherent in both perspectives. The author demonstrates that the evolving responsibility to protect principle can be recruited to support a wide range of irreconcilable projects, from those of cosmopolitan constitutionalism to those of hegemonic international law. However, despite the dangers posed by this susceptibility to conceptual hijacking, Oman argues that the responsibility to protect, like human rights, is an essential a modern emancipatory formation. To remedy this dangerous malleability, the author advocates a third, distinctive interpretation of the responsibility to protect designed to limit its cooptation by liberal anti-pluralist and hegemonic international law agendas. Oman outlines the key features of such a minimalist conception, and explores its fit with the ""RtoP"" version of the responsibility to protect promoted in recent years by the UN. The author argues that two crucial features missing from the UN reading of the principle should be developed in future: an acknowledgement of the role of non-state actors as bearers of the responsibility to protect, and a recognition of the principle's legal character. Both of these aspects of the principle offer means to democratize the international law-making enterprise."

By: Natalie Oman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781472423948
ISBN 10: 1472423941
Series: Routledge Research in International Law
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 18 December 2019
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction Chapter 1 A Philosophical Underpinning for a State’s ""Responsibility to Protect"" Chapter 2 Intercultural Judgement and the Role of a Sensus Communis Chapter 3 Human Security and Hannah Arendt’s ""Right to Have Rights"" Chapter 4 The Scope of the ""Responsibility to Prevent"" Atrocity Crimes: A Remit for Intervention? Chapter 5 The International Legal Character of the Responsibility to Protect Conclusion Distant Strangers and Our Responsibility to Protect"

Natalie Oman is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She has published in the areas of international law and human rights, philosophy of law, indigenous rights, and ethics.