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Cosmopolitan dystopia, international intervention and the failure of the West, Philip Cunliffe

Label
Cosmopolitan dystopia, international intervention and the failure of the West, Philip Cunliffe
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Cosmopolitan dystopia
Oclc number
1129691846
Responsibility statement
Philip Cunliffe
Sub title
international intervention and the failure of the West
Summary
Cosmopolitan Dystopia' shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order. 'Cosmopolitan Dystopia' explains how liberal cosmopolitanism has led us to treat new humanitarian crises as unprecedented demands for military action, thereby trapping us in a loop of endless war. Attempts to normalize humanitarian emergency through the doctrine of the 'responsibility to protect' has made for a paternalist understanding of state power that undercuts the representative functions of state sovereignty. The legacy of liberal intervention is a cosmopolitan dystopia of permanent war, insurrection by cosmopolitan jihadis and a new authoritarian vision of sovereignty in which states are responsible for their peoples rather than responsible to them. This book will be of vital interest to scholars and students of international relations, IR theory and human rights. --, Provided by publisher
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