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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480699803321

Autore

Cunliffe Philip

Titolo

Cosmopolitan dystopia : International intervention and the failure of the West / / Philip Cunliffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5261-5208-8

1-5261-5145-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (1 volume))

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Liberalism

Intervention (International law)

Internationalism

Dystopias

Cosmopolitanism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Cosmopolitan Dystopia' shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order. 'Cosmopolitan Dystopia' explains how liberal cosmopolitanism has led us to treat new humanitarian crises as unprecedented demands for military action, thereby trapping us in a loop of endless war. Attempts to normalize humanitarian emergency through the doctrine of the 'responsibility to protect' has made for a paternalist understanding of state power that undercuts the representative functions of state sovereignty. The legacy of liberal intervention is a cosmopolitan dystopia of permanent war, insurrection by cosmopolitan jihadis and a new authoritarian vision of sovereignty in which states are responsible for their peoples rather than responsible to them. This book will be of vital interest to scholars



and students of international relations, IR theory and human rights.