Human rights, extraterritoriality and the good international citizen

A Cosmopolitan Perspective

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ID4445253
AuthorsRichard Shapcott (0000-0002-5645-7443, The University of Queensland, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume34
Issue2
Pages246-264
Publication date2020-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117819897310
OpenAlexW2997554109
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This article revisits the possibilities of the good international citizen (GIC) as a civilising agent in international society. It argues that an underdeveloped resource for thinking about state responsibilities as GIC is the idea of cosmopolitan extraterritoriality (ET) in relation to human rights. ET, the assertion of jurisdiction beyond territorial borders, has long been associated with statist and nationalist purposes; however, a significant cosmopolitan, and civilising, potential can be found within practices of ET in relation to human rights and certain aspects of criminal law such as in the practices of child sex tourism and trafficking. This form of ET allows states to restrain their own citizens abroad and potentially restrain their own foreign policies and practices by accepting limits on their freedom of action derived from respect for human rights and respect for the rule of law

Action (physics) · Assertion · Cosmopolitanism · Extraterritoriality · Human rights · International human rights law · International law · Jurisdiction · Law and economics · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Relation (database) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues

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