Responsibilities to protect : perspectives in theory and practice / edited by David Whetham, Bradley J. Strawser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whetham, David, editor.

Strawser, Bradley Jay, editor.

Series:

International Studies on Military Ethics 1.

International Studies on Military Ethics, 2214-7926 ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility to protect (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Nijhoff, 2015.

Summary:

Following the humanitarian horrors of the 1990s, the international community began to seek consensus on a new norm to help address the tension between upholding the sovereign right of states to administer their own internal affairs, and the pressing need for civilian populations to be protected from their own government in certain situations. The result was the responsibility to protect initiative from the UN, accepted as an emerging norm and based on existing legal structures although not itself necessarily accepted as law. This volume looks not only at the humanitarian-inspired interventions of the past 15 years, such as those that took place under the Force for Good banner of the UK Government under New Labour, but also looks at what this has meant for the people actually involved in doing them. What responsibilities do states have towards their own soldiers when sending them to protect ‘other’ people? Should that responsibility extend to moral and psychological protection as well as physical protection, and if so, how? How far does the duty go when considering the protection of one’s own citizens who have deliberately placed themselves in harm’s way, such as journalists who have chosen to leave the safety of a protected area? What happens when institutions are faced with the choice of protecting their people or their reputation? What does it feel like for the inhabitants of a state who become ‘protected’ by the international community? The book brings together international scholars and practitioners to address these concerns from both sides of the coin, recognising that international initiatives have practical implications.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / David Whetham and Bradley J. Strawser

The Moral Responsibility to Aid Others / David Whetham and Bradley J. Strawser

Libya – A Last Hurrah or Model for the Future? / David Fisher

Object Lesson or Subject People: On the Receiving End of the Responsibility to Protect / Robert Wilton

Tony Blair and Military Intervention: Protector or Provocateur? / Peter Lee

Ten Myths about the Responsibility to Protect: A Realist Critique / Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer

State Responsibility to Protect Deployed Servicemen: The us and uk Approaches to Operational Risk during the 2000s / Mark Clegg

Military Medical Personnel – A Unique Responsibility to Protect / Anthony Dew and Don Carrick

The Responsibility to Dissent: Whistleblowing and Military Effectiveness / Colin T. Sullivan

Dehumanizing the Enemy: The Intersection of Neuroethics and Military Ethics / Shannon E. French and Anthony I. Jack

Our Responsibility to the Irresponsible / Sophie Paul

Index / David Whetham and Bradley J. Strawser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28038-3

OCLC:

907801426

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004280380 DOI