Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-205) and index.
Contents:
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.
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 the conscience-shocking nature of such crimes 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. "-- Provided by publisher.
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