Evil As A Crime Against Humanity: Confronting Mass Atrocities In A Plural World

Acknowledgments......Page 7
 Praise for Evil as a Crime Against Humanity......Page 10
 Contents......Page 11
 List of Tables......Page 14
1 Imagination and Reality......Page 15
1.1 The Rift and the Alternative......Page 17
1.2.1 An Alternative to R2P’s Apolitical Logic......Page 20
1.2.2 Identifying the ICC’s Primary Purpose......Page 23
1.2.3 A Distinctive Vision of World Order......Page 25
1.2.4 The Meaning and the Role of Evil......Page 28
1.3 Chapter Outline......Page 30
1.4 Conclusion......Page 33
Bibliography......Page 38
2 Evil as a Crime Against Humanity......Page 47
2.1 Approaching Evil......Page 49
2.2 Defending Evil Against ‘Evil-Sceptics’......Page 54
2.2.1 A Fundamental Mindset Inclined to Burn Witches......Page 55
2.2.2 Abusing Evil: Dichotomising the World......Page 56
2.2.3 Crusading Moralism......Page 58
2.2.4 Everything—Including Evil—Is Relative (and Only That Is Absolute)......Page 61
2.2.5 The Concept of Evil: A Black Hole......Page 63
2.2.6 Abandoning Evil?......Page 65
2.3 Evil as a Crime Against Humanity......Page 66
2.3.1 Hannah Arendt’s Account of Evil......Page 67
2.3.2 Mass Atrocities as—And Through the Lens of—Evil......Page 75
2.4 Conclusion......Page 84
Bibliography......Page 89
3 A Responsibility to Protect Humanity from Evil......Page 95
3.1 The Responsibility to Protect and Evil......Page 97
3.1.1 Born Out of the Experience of Evil......Page 98
3.1.2 Designed to Combat Evil (?)......Page 106
3.2 R2P as an Evil: Sceptics and Critics......Page 115
3.2.1 The Bible, the Sword and the R2P:  R2P as (Western) Neo-imperialism......Page 116
3.2.2 Intervention as a Threat to International Order, Stability and Peace......Page 117
3.2.3 Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing: R2P the Legal Void......Page 119
3.2.4 The Anti-political Theory of R2P:  The Need to Re-politicise R2P......Page 121
3.3 R2P Against Evil: A Responsibility to Protect Humanity from Evil......Page 122
3.4 Conclusion......Page 131
Bibliography......Page 135
4 The International Criminal Court as a Bulwark Against Evil......Page 145
4.1 A Court of Dreams?......Page 147
4.2 Swords and Scales......Page 153
4.3 Combatting Evil as the ICC’s Primary Purpose......Page 162
4.3.1 Combatting Evil—The ICC’s raison d’être?......Page 163
4.3.2 Prosecuting/Punishing Evildoers—Combatting Evil?......Page 167
4.4 The Need for a Phronetic Prosecutor......Page 177
4.5 Conclusion......Page 184
Bibliography......Page 187
5 Evil and World Order: Towards an Agonistic Global Constitutionalism......Page 200
5.1 Between Freedom and Order......Page 203
5.1.1 The Liberal Constitutional Vision of (Anti-)Politics—Liberty, Democracy and Order......Page 204
5.1.2 The Agonistic Vision of Politics—Freedom, (Radical) Democracy and (Limited) Order......Page 207
5.1.3 Order and Freedom in a Pluriverse—Constitutionalisation in the Global Realm......Page 211
5.2 Visions of Freedom and (World) Order......Page 214
5.2.1 A Constitution for World Society—Cosmopolitan Law, Legitimacy and (Deliberative) Democracy......Page 215
5.2.2 Tully’s Constitutional Agonism......Page 219
5.2.3 Mouffe’s Agonistic Pluralism—Endorsing Agonism, Ignoring Enmity......Page 222
5.2.4 Synopsis: Towards an Agonistic Vision of World Order......Page 226
5.3 Agonistic Global Constitutionalism......Page 230
5.4 Conclusion......Page 240
Bibliography......Page 245
6 Tragedy and Hope......Page 252
Bibliography......Page 262
Index......Page 264