Responding to Crises: The Problematic Relationship between Security and Justice in <i>The Responsibility to Protect</i>

Bohm, Alexandra

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“…We safeguard our rights more effectively if we also protect ourselves against aggression from other countries, and we maintain a more stable system of international relations if we work to prevent other countries from collapsing into despotism or chaos. The latter, preventative measures are preferable to armed conflict, of course, and contemporary cosmopolitans such as Garrett Wallace Brown and Alexandra Bohm have drawn on Kant to claim that we are obligated to promote global economic and social justice, which would help us avoid war and prevent crimes against humanity, and to engage in military intervention as a last resort and only to establish a more peaceful condition (Brown and Bohm 2015; Bohm 2013).…”

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The Limits of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Practice, and the Crisis in Syria

Altman

2017

Kantian rev.

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Although Kant defends a cosmopolitan ideal, his philosophy is problematically vague regarding how to achieve it, which lends support to the empty formalism charge. How Kant would respond to the crisis in Syria reveals that judgement plays too central a role, because Kantian principles lead to equally reasonable but opposite conclusions on how to weigh the duty of hospitality to refugees against a state’s duty to its own citizens, the right of prevention towards ISIS against the duty not to harm non-combatants, and the responsibility to protect the people of Syria against the duty of non-interference in its internal affairs.

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The Limits of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Practice, and the Crisis in Syria

Altman

2017

Kantian rev.

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“…Similar points can be made in relation to the international–local relationships in Rwanda — both Belgium’s colonial policies and, later, neoliberal economic policies enacted in Rwanda’s coffee sector. These helped to create conditions of structural tension that played a role in the genocide ( Bohm, 2013 : 247; Jones, 1995 ; Mamdani, 2001 : 13; Robbins, 2002 ).…”

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Introducing Jus ante Bellum as a cosmopolitan approach to humanitarian intervention

Brown

Bohm

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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Cosmopolitans often argue that the international community has a humanitarian responsibility to intervene militarily in order to protect vulnerable individuals from violent threats and to pursue the establishment of a condition of cosmopolitan justice based on the notion of a ‘global rule of law’. The purpose of this article is to argue that many of these cosmopolitan claims are incomplete and untenable on cosmopolitan grounds because they ignore the systemic and chronic structural factors that underwrite the root causes of these humanitarian threats. By way of examining cosmopolitan arguments for humanitarian military intervention and how systemic problems are further ignored in iterations of the Responsibility to Protect, this article suggests that many contemporary cosmopolitan arguments are guilty of focusing too narrowly on justifying a responsibility to respond to the symptoms of crisis versus demanding a similarly robust justification for a responsibility to alleviate persistent structural causes. Although this article recognizes that immediate principles of humanitarian intervention will, at times, be necessary, the article seeks to draw attention to what we are calling principles of Jus ante Bellum (right before war) and to stress that current cosmopolitan arguments about humanitarian intervention will remain insufficient without the incorporation of robust principles of distributive global justice that can provide secure foundations for a more thoroughgoing cosmopolitan condition of public right.

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Chinese Discursive Strategies During the Syrian Civil War

Grandpierron,

Pomès

2024

Soft Power and Diplomatic Strategies in Asia and the Middle East

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The Syrian situation crystallises all the questions related to the issue of the application of the responsibility to protect to sovereign states. It illustrates the delicate balance between the protection of human rights and international security. By contrast to the Russian position, China's has been more discreet and became more and more present in conjunction with the development of its geopolitical project Belt and Road Initiative. This chapter investigates all of these questions from the perspective of official Chinese discourses related to Syrian civil war. Beginning with the key assumption that what matters more to understanding how the Chinese view the international order is not what they say but how they say it, this chapter uses critical discourse analysis in order to unpack the implicit meanings of official Chinese narratives and views on the international order.

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Responding to Crises: The Problematic Relationship between Security and Justice in The Responsibility to Protect

Cited by 3 publications

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The Limits of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Practice, and the Crisis in Syria

The Limits of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Practice, and the Crisis in Syria

Introducing Jus ante Bellum as a cosmopolitan approach to humanitarian intervention

Chinese Discursive Strategies During the Syrian Civil War

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