The State And Cosmopolitan Responsibilities

Author : Richard Beardsworth,Garrett Wallace Brown,Richard Shapcott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192520883

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This book explores the role that states might play in promoting a cosmopolitan condition as an agent of cosmopolitanism rather than an obstacle to it. In doing so the book seeks to develop recent arguments in favour of locating cosmopolitan moral and political responsibility at the state level as either an alternative to, or a corollary of, cosmopolitanism as it is more commonly understood qua requiring transnational or global bearers of responsibility. As a result, the contributions in this volume see an on-going role for the state, but also its transformation, perhaps only partially, into a more cosmopolitan-minded institution — instead of a purely 'national' or particularistic one. It therefore makes the case that the state as a form of political community can be reconciled with various form of cosmopolitan responsibility. In this way the book will address the question of how states, in the present, and in the future, can be better bearers of cosmopolitan responsibilities?

Author : Richard Beardsworth,Garrett Wallace Brown,Richard Shapcott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192520890

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The State and Cosmopolitan Responsibilities by Richard Beardsworth,Garrett Wallace Brown,Richard Shapcott Pdf

This book explores the role that states might play in promoting a cosmopolitan condition as an agent of cosmopolitanism rather than an obstacle to it. In doing so the book seeks to develop recent arguments in favour of locating cosmopolitan moral and political responsibility at the state level as either an alternative to, or a corollary of, cosmopolitanism as it is more commonly understood qua requiring transnational or global bearers of responsibility. As a result, the contributions in this volume see an on-going role for the state, but also its transformation, perhaps only partially, into a more cosmopolitan-minded institution — instead of a purely 'national' or particularistic one. It therefore makes the case that the state as a form of political community can be reconciled with various form of cosmopolitan responsibility. In this way the book will address the question of how states, in the present, and in the future, can be better bearers of cosmopolitan responsibilities?

Author : Richard Illingworth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000968279

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Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect by Richard Illingworth Pdf

This book provides a systematic analysis of reform measures aimed at strengthening the implementation of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) doctrine, utilising a cosmopolitan lens. In 2005, member states of the United Nations (UN) accepted a ‘Responsibility to Protect’ against four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. Despite this commitment, mass atrocities remain a pervasive aspect of the international landscape. In addressing R2P reform, the book utilises a ‘transitional cosmopolitan’ lens. The aim of this transitional cosmopolitan approach is to promote incremental progress towards solving moral problems by operating within particular contexts and practical barriers to change. Three areas for reform are explored: the UN Security Council P5’s power of veto, to prevent the veto obstructing timely and decisive R2P response action; the powers of the UN General Assembly as an alternative means for responding to mass atrocity situations; and the establishment of an ‘R2P Commission’ to hold states accountable for their R2P commitments. These are not advocated as the definitive areas for R2P reform. However, each of the recommendations made can contribute at least some positive progress towards a more cosmopolitan application of the R2P that would help in curbing mass atrocity and improving the protection of fundamental human rights. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, genocide, humanitarian protection, and International Relations in general.

Author : Richard Vernon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761871

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Cosmopolitan Regard by Richard Vernon Pdf

Suggests that a cosmopolitan theory of political obligations involves extending these obligations beyond our own borders.

Author : Andreas Krieg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319333762

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Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security by Andreas Krieg Pdf

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to exercise its responsibility to protect communities under threat. Here, Krieg explains the civil-military dynamics behind the state’s failure to effectively intervene in humanitarian crises overseas using its serviceman. The central question that follows is: would the private military contractor be a better alternative agent of the state in humanitarian intervention? This book demonstrates that given his professional identity and role towards client state and public, the contractor can be employed effectively in humanitarian intervention to generate more ethical outcomes. This volume is essential reading for researchers and post-graduate students of R2P, International Security Studies and privatization, as well as Peace and Conflict studies and International Relations more broadly.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190905651

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Author : Stan van Hooft,Wim Vandekerckhove
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048187041

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Questioning Cosmopolitanism by Stan van Hooft,Wim Vandekerckhove Pdf

Wim Vandekerckhove and Stan van Hooft The philosopher, Diogenes the Cynic, in the fourth century BCE, was asked where he came from and where he felt he belonged. He answered that he was a “citi- 1 zen of the world” (kosmopolitês) . This made him the rst person known to have described himself as a cosmopolitan. A century later, the Stoics had developed that concept further, stating that the whole cosmos was but one polis, of which the order was logos or right reason. Living according to that right reason implied showing goodness to all of human kind. Through early Christianity, cosmopolitanism was given various interpretations, sometimes quite contrary to the inclusive notion of the Stoics. Augustine’s interpretation, for example, suggested that only those who love God can live in the universal and borderless “City of God”. Later, the red- covery of Stoic writings during the European Renaissance inspired thinkers like Erasmus, Grotius and Pufendorf to draw on cosmopolitanism to advocate world peace through religious tolerance and a society of states. That same inspiration can be noted in the American and French revolutions. In the eighteenth century, enlig- enment philosophers such as Bentham (through utilitarianism) and Kant (through universal reason) developed new and very different versions of cosmopolitanism that serve today as key sources of cosmopolitan philosophy. The nineteenth century saw the development of new forms of transnational ideals, including that of Marx’s critique of capitalism on behalf of an international working class.

Author : Jonathan Gilmore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137032270

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The Cosmopolitan Military by Jonathan Gilmore Pdf

What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human community.

Author : Barbara Elisabeth Müller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030834579

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Cosmopolitanism as Nonrelationism by Barbara Elisabeth Müller Pdf

This book suggests that more can be said about cosmopolitanism than either the bold endorsement of a world state or the humble recognition of the equal moral worth of individuals, which makes everybody cosmopolitan. Identifying problems with the traditional concept and disentangling a variety of positions within the cosmopolitan paradigm, it introduces the more refined concept of cosmopolitanism as nonrelationism, which denies underived special duties among fellow citizens or other related individuals, such as family members or friends. Cosmopolitanism as nonrelationism promises to overcome an entrenched debate wherein everybody is a cosmopolitan, and brings back the radical character traditionally associated with the term. It portrays cosmopolitanism as a distinct and thorough position challenging classic proponents such as Barry, Caney, Nussbaum, and Pogge, and questioning their theories’ cosmopolitan character. Cosmopolitanism as nonrelationism has consequences for world politics without prescribing any unfeasible global order: It establishes normative criteria for evaluating institutions and provides guidance for the development of new ones.

Author : Richard Vernon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521744377

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Cosmopolitan Regard by Richard Vernon Pdf

Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-examine our beliefs about political obligation. Far from undermining the demands of citizenship, cosmopolitanism implies more demanding political obligations than theories of the state have traditionally recognized. Using examples including humanitarian intervention, international criminal law, and international political economy, Vernon suggests we have a responsibility not to enhance risks facing other societies and to assist them when their own risk-taking has failed. The central arguments in Cosmopolitan Regard are that what we owe to other societies rests on the same basis as what we owe to our own, and that a theory of cosmopolitanism must connect the responsibilities of citizens beyond their own borders with their obligations to one another.

Author : Gillian Brock,Harry Brighouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521846609

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The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism by Gillian Brock,Harry Brighouse Pdf

In a period of rapid internationalization of trade and increased labor mobility, is it relevant for nations to think about their moral obligations to others? Do national boundaries have fundamental moral significance, or do we have moral obligations to foreigners that are equal to our obligations to our compatriots? The latter position is known as cosmopolitanism, and this volume brings together a number of distinguished political philosophers and theorists to explore cosmopolitanism: what it consists in, and the positive case which can be made for it. Their essays provide a comprehensive overview of both the current state of the debate and the alternative visions of cosmopolitanism with which we can move forward, and they will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy, political theory, and law.

Author : David Held
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745659350

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Cosmopolitanism by David Held Pdf

This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicating its core principles and justifications, and examines the role many of these principles have played in the development of global politics, such as framing the human rights regime. The framework is then used to address some of the most pressing issues of our time: the crisis of financial markets, climate change and the fallout from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In each case, Held argues that realistic politics is exhausted, and that cosmopolitanism is the new realism. See also Garrett Wallace Brown and David Held's The Cosmopolitanism Reader.

Author : Roland Pierik,Wouter Werner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139488044

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Cosmopolitanism in Context by Roland Pierik,Wouter Werner Pdf

Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral concern for all survive the marriage between cosmopolitanism and institutional power? What are the effects of such bureaucratisation of cosmopolitan ideals? This volume examines the strained relationship between cosmopolitanism as a moral standard and the legal institutions in which cosmopolitan norms and principles are to be implemented. Five areas of global concern are analysed: environmental protection, economic regulation, peace and security, the fight against international crimes and migration.

Author : Luis Cabrera
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415770661

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Political Theory of Global Justice by Luis Cabrera Pdf

This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration among nation-states will help ensure all persons can lead a decent life.

Author : Will Kymlicka,Kathryn Walker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774822633

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Rooted Cosmopolitanism by Will Kymlicka,Kathryn Walker Pdf

Canadians take pride in being good citizens of the world, yet our failure to meet commitments on the global stage raises questions. Do Canadians need to transcend national loyalties to become full global citizens? Is the very idea of rooted cosmopolitanism simply a myth that encourages complacency about Canada’s place in the world? In this volume, leading scholars assess both in theory and practice the concept of rooted cosmopolitanism, using Canada as a test case. They show that local identities such as patriotism and Quebec nationalism can, but need not, conflict with cosmopolitan principles. Local ties enable and impede Canada’s global responsibilities in areas such as multiculturalism, climate change, immigration and refugee policy, and humanitarian intervention. By examining how Canada has negotiated its relations to “the world” both within and beyond its own borders, Rooted Cosmopolitanism evaluates the possibility of reconciling local ties and nationalism with commitments to human rights, global justice, and international law.