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Journal Article Analysis Liberal Intervention in the Foreign Policy Thinking of Tony Blair and David Cameron’, with Pauline Schnapper, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26, 2 (2013), pp.330-349. *(Originally submitted to the University of Leicester, Politics and International Relations Dept. on 10th October 2018) Introduction The article by Daddow and Schnapper explores the role that
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”The individual human being ……is the ultimate unit of all law.” (Hersch Lauterpacht, 1943, creator of the legal concept, ‘Crimes against Humanity) This essay challenges the view that the existence of international law, specifically international humanitarian law, Conventions, Treaties on human rights, and International Customary law such as the Genocide Convention guarantees the protection of civilians
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Photo by Sean JOHNSTON on Pexels.com In an increasingly conflict ridden world plagued by brutal military intervention in the lives of millions of individuals living in places such as Gaza, Syria, Nicaragua and Myanmar, international law becomes even more important in providing some degree of protection to civilians who are victims of violence at the…
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Should the use of torture be reserved for the most extreme cases involving suspected terrorists? The writings of the philosopher, Jeremy Bentham are at times invoked to present the ‘ticking bomb’ argument as a moral justification for the use of torture on a terrorist. Davies posits the argument in the following way : ”given variously
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This essay explores the question of whether the existence of legal protection for refugees provided for by International law such as the 1951 Refugee Convention is necessarily guaranteed by domestic laws and policies of Sovereign political States. The fact that refugees are a people in transition , fleeing brutalities at the hands of their own
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of devolving the state’s monopoly on the use of legitimate force? Taylor discusses the ethical issues concerning whether PMSCs ( Private Military and Security Companies) should be hired by States to undertake military operations, and argues in support of hiring PMSCs ”when they are likely to be the most effective agents
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Edward Song discusses a cosmopolitan view posited by political theorists emphasizing the idea that ‘individuals are the ultimate units of moral concern and states must earn their sovereignty through the just treatment of persons within their borders’ (Song p. 137). The issue raised in his article has to do with the question of whether the
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The relationship between gender and protection Edwards asserts that that there is an absence of a ‘universally agreed binding treaty norm explicitly prohibiting violence against women.’ ( Edwards, p.3). Notwithstanding the existence of the 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) by the UN General Assembly, the argument is that human rights
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Can ‘human rights’ offer significant protection to individual persons? The advisory opinion of the IACtHR recognises that ‘ humans possess fundamental rights by virtue of the unassailable attributes inherent to human dignity.’ (Kesby 2012, p.92). Such a perception of a shared humanity is one that transcends cultural, political and racial differences to recognise individuals for who
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The possibilities of bringing stateless persons back into the protections of citizenship. I reflected this week on the ironies that arise in relation to article 15 of the UDHR that states: “Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality, nor denied the right to change his nationality
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Tensions?that remain inherent in recognizing?Women’s Rights.? The French feminist writer, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) writes about the? perceptions of women, their role and significance in society. In her work,’The Second Sex (1949), she argues that: “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman. No biological, psychological or economic fate determines the figure that the…
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What is the cosmopolitan/communitarian debate? What are the implications of drawing boundaries around the community relevant to moral questions? The universality of morality is a key feature of cosmopolitanism. Such a universal moral code is said to transcend national boundaries in its application to everyone regardless of racial and cultural differences, since ‘what defines us…
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