Essays about: "RtoP"

Found 3 essays containing the word RtoP.

  1. 1. Moral Relativism or Moral Universalism? : A Comparative Case Study of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Recommendations towards Myanmar and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kim Larsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Democratic Public’s Republic of Korea; descriptive idea analysis; moral relativism; moral universalism; Myanmar; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Responsibility to Protect;

    Abstract : Two theories that are becoming more established within the doctrine of international politics are moral relativism and moral universalism, but none of these theories have been applied to real life cases. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate if the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) arguments regarding the human rights violations in Myanmar and the Democratic Public’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), are more similar to the moral relativism theory or more similar to the moral universalism theory and if there are any differences between the arguments. READ MORE

  3. 2. Libya, Syria and The Responsibilty to Protect: : A Case Study to determine what accounted for the different outcomes.

    University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)

    Author : Jhonatan Andrés Aranda García; [2013]
    Keywords : Libya; Syria; Responsibility to Protect; RtoP; Neo-realism; Social constructivism; Syria; Libya; China; Russia;

    Abstract : Abstract: In 2011, the Libyan and Syrian crises caught the attention of the media and international society. Whereas the former reached a positive outcome in compliance with the application of the Responsibility to Protect norm, the latter continues to claim the lives of thousands of people to this day. READ MORE

  4. 3. International Protection and the Sovereign Decision - A Geneology of the Responsibility to Protect

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Daniel Gustafsson; [2013]
    Keywords : RtoP; responsibility to protect; decisionism; Schmitt; bare life; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In the wake of the 2005 World Summit ratification of the responsibility to protect doctrine, the cases of Darfur and Syria have revealed the decisionary discretion of the collective international responsibility to protect inscribed within the doctrine. Through an engagement with the decisionist theory of Carl Schmitt and the work of Giorgio Agamben, this essay seeks to return the question of the decision regarding intervention under the responsibility to protect doctrine to its proper place as the functioning of power. READ MORE