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Chapter 4 examines deployments of “crimes against humanity” by post–Cold War liberal cosmopolitan thinkers across international relations theory and political theory. Liberal cosmopolitans routinely use “crimes against humanity” to recast foreign military intervention as global policing, rather than warfare. This rearticulation of cross-border military coercion disavows its irreducibly violent character and privileges the hierarchy between criminals against humanity and the enforcers of its laws over the principle of combatant equality that defines the international law of war. In this light, the chapter analyzes Jürgen Habermas’s reliance on crimes against humanity as “fixes” in moments in which his canonical theory of human rights and the democratic authorization of coercive law enforcement cannot justify Western-led military intervention in non-European states that he nonetheless endorses. Shifting away from long-standing theoretical commitments, Habermas’s cosmopolitanism yields an “affective turn,” which claims that public expressions of normative emotions against atrocities abroad serve to legitimize foreign intervention.

Author

Sinja Graf

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN