Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security Safeguarding the Responsib
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 internationa
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Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security
Andreas Krieg
Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security Safeguarding the Responsibility to Protect
Andreas Krieg War & Defence Studies King’s College London War & Defence Studies London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-33375-5 ISBN 978-3-319-33376-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33376-2
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To my lovely wife Zohal
PREFACE
I commenced the research for this book amid the Arab Spring, when states and societies just outside Europe were plunging into chaos and anarchy. The resulting humanitarian crises—most notably those in Libya and Syria—received different responses from the international community: while in Libya the international community was ready to protect civilians at the 1,000-mark, five years into the conflict in Syria little has been done to alleviate the human suffering with hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced. In my previous research I addressed the question of what motivates states to conduct humanitarian interventions, suggesting that, albeit a mix of altruistic and self-interested considerations, ultimately the decision of intervening or abstaining is a sober cost-benefit analysis.1 The resulting inconsistency with which the international community commits to the responsibility to protect (R2P) begs the question of how to increase the states’ political will to provide for human security overseas effectively and ethically. This is where this book begins—with the realization that although states widely acknowledge the norm of the R2P they often lack the political will to act to protect, as Wheeler once put it, strangers in need.
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