Negotiating sovereignty and human rights : International society and the International Criminal Court.
Title:
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights : International society and the International Criminal Court.
Author:
Scheipers, Sibylle.
ISBN:
9781847793423
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (177 pages)
Contents:
9780719080098 -- 9780719080098 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Sovereignty and human rights in International Relations theory -- Re-reading the sovereignty and human rights debate -- Sovereignty and human rights as contested concepts -- The discursive formation of sovereignty and human rights -- Methodological approach -- 2. The configuration of sovereignty and human rights -- Sovereignty and human rights in International Relations theory -- Re-reading the sovereignty and human rights debate -- Sovereignty and human rights as contested concepts -- The discursive formation of sovereignty and human rights -- Methodological approach -- 3. The legalistic discourse -- The underlying narrative of legalism: a progressive world order based on law -- The ICC, states and individuals -- Sovereignty and human rights -- Conclusion -- 4. The interventionist discourse -- The narrative of interventionism: power politics provide for international order -- The ontological underpinnings of interventionism: states, individuals and the supra-state level -- Conditional sovereignty and the enforcement of human rights -- Conclusion -- 5. The sovereigntist discourse -- The narrative of sovereigntism: coexistence and the constitutional order of states -- Accountability within the framework of constitutional structures -- The ontological features of the sovereigntist discourse: the predominance of states -- Constitutional sovereignty as the appropriate framework for the implementation of human rights -- Conclusion -- 6. The progressivist discourse -- The narrative of progressivism: international order as 'democratic peace' -- Ontological features of the progressivist discourse: individuals as members of civil society.
Popular sovereignty and the embedding of human rights into the concept of democracy -- Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion -- The US position on the ICC: unilateralism, great power status or exceptionalism? -- The power of discourses -- International society: hegemony and anarchy -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the process and outcome of international negotiations.The book offers an innovative take on the long-standing debate over sovereignty and human rights in international relations. It goes beyond the simple and sometimes ideological duality of sovereignty versus human rights by showing that sovereignty and human rights are not competing principles in international relations, as is often argued, but complement each other. The way in which the two norms and their relationship are understood lies at the core of actors' broader visions of world order. The author shows how competing interpretations of sovereignty and human rights and the different visions of world order that they imply fed into the transatlantic debate over the ICC and transformed this debate into a conflict over the normative foundations of international society.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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