Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics
Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Mares (0000-0002-6643-3787, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 354-381 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-9719 • E-ISSN: 1752-9727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1752971924000083 |
| OpenAlex | W4404491185 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Against both liberal narratives and postcolonial critiques, this article argues that sovereignty-as-responsibility – the theory of sovereignty embraced in the responsibility to protect (R2P) – is part of a problem space that emerged with decolonization, rather than the end of the Cold War. The internally displaced person (IDP), the vehicle which Francis Deng used to critique Westphalian sovereignty, had to be theorized against the rise of the postcolonial state. In recovering the questions motivating Deng, we find a stark politics driving his work on IDPs and sovereignty. Against the claim that the heart of R2P is armed coercive intervention for humanitarian purposes, Deng used sovereignty-as-responsibility to promote a profoundly political critique of the colonial legacy and the postcolonial state, which was taken up by states of the Global South in debates on the ratification of R2P. Recovering Deng's work on IDPs and sovereignty-as-responsibility highlights R2P as itself a site of contestation, and offers a case for how ideas emerge ‘from below’ in global politics
International law · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Sovereignty · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law
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Define and Rule
Alibis of Empire
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Quasi-States
A Search for Sovereignty
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed … Something Blue? The Protection Potential of a Marriage of Concepts between R2P and IDP Protection
The R2P and Norm Diffusion
Politics Without Sovereignty
Misrepresenting R2P and Advancing Norms
Bringing the Non-coercive Dimensions of R2P to the Fore
International Responsibility as Solidarity
Frontiers of Sovereignty
The Man Called Deng Majok
The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention
The Responsibility to Protect
A Strategic Vision for Africa
From Isis to Iciss
The limits of sovereignty as responsibility
Our identity is our currency
Bonds of Silk
Neither Settler nor Native
Humanitarian Reason
Citizen and Subject
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |