Evil As a Crime Against Humanity: Confronting Mass Atrocities in a Plural World - Couverture rigide

Royer, Christof

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030538168 ISBN 13 : 9783030538163

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

Synopsis

This book seeks to reimagine why and how to confront mass atrocities in world politics. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's conception of evil, it interprets and understands mass atrocities as 'evil' in an 'Arendtian' sense, that is, as crimes against human plurality and, thus, crimes against humanity itself. This understanding of mass atrocities paves the way for reframing responses to mass atrocities as attempts to confront evil. In doing so, the book focuses on military intervention under the banner of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and judicial intervention by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and reframes them as tools to protect human plurality from evil. Furthermore, the book looks at the place and the role of R2P and the ICC in the changing landscape of world order. It argues that the protection of humanity from evil can serve as a legitimate Grundnorm (basic norm) around which a global constitutional order in an inherently pluralistic world can be constructed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christof Royer holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, UK. He specialises in International Political Theory and is particularly interested in questions surrounding the Responsibility to Protect, the International Criminal Court and world order as well as in the political thought of Hannah Arendt, Judith Shklar, Hans Morgenthau, Bernard Williams and Chantal Mouffe. He has published in journals such as Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Human Rights Review, International Affairs, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Humanity, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030538168
• ISBN 13: 9783030538163
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 281
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