This book contributes to current debates on the protection of human rights in the 21st century.
With the global economic collapse, the rise of the BRICS, the post-intervention chaos in Libya, the migration crisis in Europe, and the regional conflagration sparked by the conflict in Syria, the need to protect human rights has arguably never been greater. In light of the precipitous decline in global respect for human rights and the eruption or escalation of intra-state crises across the world, this book asks 'what is the future of human rights protection?'
Author(s): Aidan Hehir and Robert W. Murray
Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: denial, fatalism and the protection of human rights
PART I Rethinking fundamental principles
1 Global constituent power: protests and human rights
2 A critical examination of ‘humanity’
3 Failed interventions and the inherent contradictions of liberal internationalism
4 Humanitarian intervention in post-American international society
PART II ‘Protection’ and peacekeeping
5 The uncertainties of international protection
6 UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians’ norm
7 From showpiece interventions to day-to-day civilian protection: Western humanitarian intervention and UN peacekeeping
8 The responsibility to protect or the protection of civilians: which policy brand is more ‘successful’?
PART III The responsibility to protect and beyond
9 Norm complexity and contestation: unpacking the R2P
10 ‘Why is it that we keep failing?’ The responsibility to protect as a hollow norm
11 Guns vs troops: the ethics of supplying arms
12 The limits of R2P and the case for pacifism
13 The responsibility to protect: a long view
Conclusion: The future of human rights protection
Index
