Evil as a Crime Against Humanity

Confronting Mass Atrocities in a Plural World
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-53816-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: International Political Theory

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Royer, Christof

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Reimagining International Responses to Mass Atrocities.- Chapter 2. Evil as a Crime Against Humanity.- Chapter 3. A Responsibility to Protect Humanity from Evil.- Chapter 4. The International Criminal Court as a Bulwark against Evil.- Chapter 5. Evil and World Order. Towards an Agonistic Global Constitutionalism.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

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.