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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808631103321

Autore

Roff Heather <1980-, >

Titolo

Global justice, Kant and the responsibility to protect : a provisional duty / / Heather M. Roff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-10536-7

1-138-85633-9

0-203-07383-5

1-135-10537-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Global politics and the responsibility to protect

Classificazione

POL034000POL011000POL035010

Disciplina

327.117

Soggetti

Responsibility to protect (International law)

Justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword: problems and possibilities in institutionalizing the Responsibility to Protect; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Kant, global justice and the Responsibility to Protect; 1 Kantian provisional duties; 2 Provisional protection: the Responsibility to Protect as a provisional duty; 3 Kant's permissive laws; 4 Permissible coercion; 5 Provisional to peremptory: institutionalizing a duty to protect

6 Conclusion: the Responsibility to Protect and the real world-Libya and SyriaNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<P>This book provides an innovative contribution to the study of the Responsibility to Protect and Kantian political theory.</P><P>The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has been heralded as the new international security norm to ensure the protection of peoples against genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Yet, for all of the discussion, endorsements and reaffirmations of this new norm, R2P continues to come under fire for its failures, particularly, and most recently, in the case of Syria. </P><P></P><P>This book argues that a duty to protect is best



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