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008 100913s2011 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010039189
020 $a9780521199995
020 $a9780521186384 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aKZ6374$b.O74 2011
082 00 $a341.3$222
084 $aLAW051000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aOrford, Anne.
245 10 $aInternational authority and the responsibility to protect /$cAnne Orford.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
263 $a1101
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. This book situates the responsibility to protect concept in a broad historical and jurisprudential context, demonstrating that the appeal to protection as the basis for de facto authority has emerged at times of civil war or revolution - the Protestant revolutions of early modern Europe, the bourgeois and communist revolutions of the following centuries and the revolution that is decolonisation. This analysis, from Hobbes to the UN, of the resulting attempts to ground authority on the capacity to guarantee security and protection is essential reading for all those seeking to understand, engage with, limit or critique the expansive practices of international executive action authorised by the responsibility to protect concept"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Protection in the Shadow of Empire Since the late 1950s, the United Nations and other international actors have developed and systematised a body of practices aimed at 'the maintenance of order' and 'the protection of life' in the decolonised world. These practices range from fact-finding and the provision of humanitarian assistance to peacekeeping, the management of refugee camps and territorial administration. As the UN and humanitarian organisations expanded and consolidated those practices, a new form of authority began to emerge. This book is an exploration of the ways in which those practices of governing and that form of authority have been represented. It focuses in particular upon a new basis for justifying and rationalising international rule that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Protection in the shadow of empire; 2. Practices of protection: from the parliament of man to international executive rule; 3. How to recognise lawful authority: Hobbes, Schmitt and the responsibility to protect; 4. Who decides? Who interprets?: Jurisdiction, recognition and the institutionalisation of protection; 5. The question of status and the subject of protection.
650 0 $aInternational police.
650 0 $aPeacekeeping forces.
650 0 $aIntervention (International law)
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/99995/cover/9780521199995.jpg