Negotiating sovereignty and human rights: International society and the International Criminal Court

by Sibylle Scheipers

Overview

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the process and outcome of international negotiations.

The book offers an innovative take on the long-standing debate over sovereignty and human rights in international relations. It goes beyond the simple and sometimes ideological duality of sovereignty versus human rights by showing that sovereignty and human rights are not competing principles in international relations, as is often argued, but complement each other. The way in which the two norms and their relationship are understood lies at the core of actors’ broader visions of world order. The author shows how competing interpretations of sovereignty and human rights and the different visions of world order that they imply fed into the transatlantic debate over the ICC and transformed this debate into a conflict over the normative foundations of international society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719080098
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	03/31/2010
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sibylle Scheipers is Director of Studies for the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, Oxford University

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables vi

Acknowledgements vii

Note to the reader vii

List of abbreviations viii

1 Introduction 1

2 The configuration of sovereignty and human rights 13

3 The legalistic discourse 37

4 The interventionist discourse 61

5 The sovereigntist discourse 82

6 The progressivist discourse 103

7 Conclusion 125

Appendix 143

References 155

Index 167