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The Responsibility to Protect in International Law


ISBN13: 9781472423948
Published: December 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £120.00



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This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past decade. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with the more recent interpretation of the responsibility to protect advocated by the United Nations through its human protection agenda, and reviews the dangers and inconsistencies inherent in both interpretations. 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.

Subjects:
Public International Law
Contents:
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