Sovereignty and Responsibility [electronic resource] : Power, Norms and Intervention in International Relations /
Moses, J.author.
This book is a critical study of the concept of sovereignty and its relationship to responsibility. It establishes a clear distinction between empirical and normative definitions of sovereignty and examines the implications of these concepts in relation to intervention, international law, and the world state.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; About Schmitt (and, to a lesser extent, Morgenthau); The 'human nature' problem; Organization of the book; 1 Defining Sovereignty; De facto sovereignty; De jure sovereignty; Conclusion; 2 Sovereignty, (Ir)responsibility and Intervention; Sovereignty as responsibility; Sovereignty as irresponsibility?; Conclusion; 3 Normative Theory and Political Theology; Introduction; Norm entrepreneurship; Norm entrepreneurship as secular prophecy; The RtoP norm and its entrepreneurs; The crisis of the norm: The consequences of secular prophecy; Conclusion
4 The Politics of Sovereignty as Responsibility: The Case of LibyaDefining 'the political'; The politics and anti-politics of the RtoP in theory; The politics of the RtoP in Libya; After Libya: The RtoP perspective; Conclusion: The RtoP and the politics of human protection; 5 Sovereignty, Intervention and Contemporary International Law; The Kosovo case; Sovereignty and silence in the Kosovo Advisory Opinion; The RtoP and the ICC; Conclusion: The primacy of politics over law; 6 Beyond Sovereignty? Cosmopolitanism and Realist Thought on the World State; De facto sovereignty and the world state
Morgenthau and the world stateNuclear fear and the 'New Leviathan'; 'Progressive Realism' and the world state; Conclusion: The persistence of crisis and decision in the world state; Conclusion: Myths and Metaphors of Sovereignty; RtoP: The irresponsible norm; Decapitations and castrations; Chasms and bridges; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a critical study of the concept of sovereignty and its relationship to responsibility. It establishes a clear distinction between empirical and normative definitions of sovereignty and examines the implications of these concepts in relation to intervention, international law, and the world state.
Politics and war.
International relations.
Diplomacy.
Political science.
Military and Defence Studies.
International Relations.
Diplomacy.
Political Science.