TY - BOOK TI - Evil As a Crime Against Humanity: Confronting Mass Atrocities in a Plural World AU - Royer, Christof PY - 2020 PB - Springer International Publishing AG LA - eng KW - Crimes against humanity AB - Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Evil as a Crime Against Humanity -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Imagination and Reality -- 1.1 The Rift and the Alternative -- 1.2 The Mosaic and Its Elements -- 1.2.1 An Alternative to R2P's Apolitical Logic -- 1.2.2 Identifying the ICC's Primary Purpose -- 1.2.3 A Distinctive Vision of World Order -- 1.2.4 The Meaning and the Role of Evil -- 1.3 Chapter Outline -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2 Evil as a Crime Against Humanity -- 2.1 Approaching Evil -- 2.2 Defending Evil Against 'Evil-Sceptics' -- 2.2.1 A Fundamental Mindset Inclined to Burn Witches -- 2.2.2 Abusing Evil: Dichotomising the World -- 2.2.3 Crusading Moralism -- 2.2.4 Everything-Including Evil-Is Relative (and Only That Is Absolute) -- 2.2.5 The Concept of Evil: A Black Hole -- 2.2.6 Abandoning Evil? -- 2.3 Evil as a Crime Against Humanity -- 2.3.1 Hannah Arendt's Account of Evil -- 2.3.2 Mass Atrocities as-And Through the Lens of-Evil -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 A Responsibility to Protect Humanity from Evil -- 3.1 The Responsibility to Protect and Evil -- 3.1.1 Born Out of the Experience of Evil -- 3.1.2 Designed to Combat Evil (?) -- 3.2 R2P as an Evil: Sceptics and Critics -- 3.2.1 The Bible, the Sword and the R2P: R2P as (Western) Neo-imperialism -- 3.2.2 Intervention as a Threat to International Order, Stability and Peace -- 3.2.3 Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing: R2P the Legal Void -- 3.2.4 The Anti-political Theory of R2P: The Need to Re-politicise R2P -- 3.3 R2P Against Evil: A Responsibility to Protect Humanity from Evil -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 The International Criminal Court as a Bulwark Against Evil -- 4.1 A Court of Dreams? -- 4.2 Swords and Scales -- 4.3 Combatting Evil as the ICC's Primary Purpose -- 4.3.1 Combatting Evil-The ICC's raison d'ĂȘtre?. UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6322001 UR - https://thh-friedensau.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/thhfriedensau/detail.action?docID=6322001 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hk24/detail.action?docID=6322001 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ue-germany/detail.action?docID=6322001 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mpil/detail.action?docID=6322001 SN - 9783030538170 T2 - International Political Theory Ser. UR - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-1780959729 H1 - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft) ER -