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(2019) The responsibility to protect and a cosmopolitan approach to human protection, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Introduction
the responsibility to protect (r2p) and a cosmopolitan approach to human protection
Samuel James Wyatt
pp. 1-23
This chapter outlines the monograph's overarching research objective, which is to demonstrate that, through being contextualised within the framework of Habermas' constitutional cosmopolitan approach and providing a prospective footing for the constitutionalisation and grounding of cosmopolitan ethical norms, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine reflects a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection in the post-Cold War period. The chapter explains the decision to undertake this research objective; outlines the three major contributions the monograph makes to the existing literature on R2P and contemporary forms of cosmopolitan theory; explains the decision to focus on human protection—a consequence of the doctrine's engagement with atrocity prevention and incorporation of the principles of distributive global justice—and provides a synopsis of each individual chapter in the book.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00701-0_1
Full citation:
Wyatt, S. (2019). Introduction: the responsibility to protect (r2p) and a cosmopolitan approach to human protection, in The responsibility to protect and a cosmopolitan approach to human protection, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-23.
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