The Limits of Common Humanity : Motivating the Responsibility to Protect in a Changing Global Order / Samuel Jarvis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarvis, Samuel, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanity.

Responsibility to protect (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What motivates states to protect populations threatened by mass atrocities beyond their own borders? Most often, states and their representatives appeal to the principle of common humanity, acknowledging a conscience-shocking quality that demands a moral response. But though the idea of a common humanity is powerful, the question remains: to what extent is it effective in motivating action?The Limits of Common Humanity provides an ambitious interdisciplinary response to this question, theorizing the role of humanity as a motivational concept by building on insights from international relations, political philosophy, and international law. Through this analysis, Samuel Jarvis examines the influence the concept of humanity has had on the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) commitment, while highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice. By providing a new framework for thinking about how political, legal, and moral arguments interact during the process of collective decision-making, Jarvis explores the contradictory ways in which states approach the protection of human beings from mass atrocity crimes, both domestically and internationally.In the context of a rapidly changing global order, The Limits of Common Humanity is a timely reappraisal of the R2P concept and its future application, arguing for a more politically motivated response to human protection that moves beyond an appeal for morality.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Missing Role of Humanity

The Development and Contestation of the Responsibility to Protect

What Is Humanity?

Threats to Our Common Humanity: Why Humanity Matters

Humanity and the United Nations

Assessing the R2P's Motivational Capacity: The Role of Humanity

The R2P's Key Added Value: Rethinking Implementation and Reform

Motivation beyond Humanity in a Changing Global Order

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

0-2280-1296-1

OCLC:

1289995711