David Karp

Human Rights Protection in Global Politics: Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors - Global Issues David Karp

Marc Notes: This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today. It critiques a narrow focus on states' 'violations' of human rights, incorporates non-state actors, and looks beyond the 'Responsibility to Protect' policy framework. Biographical Note: Kurt Mills is Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published widely in the area of human rights and international relations. David Jason Karp is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He researches, publishes and teaches in the areas of human rights, international relations and political theory. Table of Contents: PART I: RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS1. Introduction: Human Rights Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors; David Jason Karp and Kurt Mills2. Humanitarianism and Responsibility in Discourse and Practice; Glenn Mitoma and Kerry BystromPART II: STATES' RESPONSIBILITIES: BEYOND 'VIOLATIONS' OF HUMAN RIGHTS3. Doctrinal Innovation and State Obligations: The Patterns of Doctrinal Development in the Jurisprudence of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Matyas Bodig4. Indivisible Human Rights and the End(s) of the State; Daniel J. Whelan5. Beyond Individual Accountability: The Meaning of State Responsibility; Mark GibneyPART III: RESPONSIBILITIES OF NON-STATE ACTORS6. Putting the Blame on Governments: Why Firms and Governments Have Failed to Advance the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; Susan Ariel Aaronson and Ian Higham7. The Concept of Human Rights Protection and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; David Jason Karp8. Human Rights Ltd.: An Alternative Approach to Assessing the Impact of Transnational Corporations on Human Rights; Flor Gonzalez Correa9. Living Up to Human Rights Responsibilities: Lawyers and Law Firms in the Chinese Authoritarian Context; Nicola Macbean and Elisa Nesossi10. Fulfilling the Right to Education? Responsibilities of State and Non-State Actors in Myanmar's Education System; Maaike MatelskiPART IV: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT11. What Responsibilities Does the International Community Have in Complex Humanitarian Crises and Mass Atrocity Situations?; Kurt Mills12. Grappling with Double Manifest Failure: R2P and the Civilian Protection Conundrum; Melissa Labonte13. Prevention Cascade: The United States and the Diffusion of R2P; Michael Galchinsky14. Argumentation and the Responsibility to Protect: The Case of Libya; Tim Dunne and Katharine GelberPublisher Marketing: Human Rights Protection in Global Politics analyzes the contemporary human rights responsibilities of state, non-state and international actors. It includes an interdisciplinary set of perspectives based in international relations, politics, law and philosophy. The book seeks to understand - but also to critique and to move beyond - the contributions of, firstly, the 'respect-protect-fulfil' tripartite division of human rights responsibility, and secondly, the more recent 'Responsibility to Protect' policy framework. It rejects approaches that treat duties to respect, not to harm, or not to violate human rights as entirely constitutive of the responsibilities that global actors have. The book's contributors engage in dialogue with each other, and sometimes even disagree. However, they are unified in their attempt to paint a more complex picture than is currently available about the nature of human rights protection and various global actors' responsibility for it.

Contributor Bio:  Karp, David David Karp, Ph. D., is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he teaches courses in criminology and criminal justice. He conducts research on community-based responses to crime and has given workshops on restorative justice and community justice nationally. Currently, he is engaged in a qualitative research study examining Vermont's community reparative probation boards and is a member of the New York State Community Justice Forum. He is the author of more that 30 academic articles and technical reports and two previous books--Community Justice: An Emerging Field and The Community Justice Ideal: Preventing Crime and Achieving Justice (with Todd Clear). Contributor Bio:  Mills, Kurt Mills is Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo.