"Explains Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a new international norm to protect the peoples of the world. With real-world examples, current events analysis, and assessments from personal experience, shows how R2P is better equipped to end mass atrocity crimes than is "the right to intervene" or other "humanitarian intervention" doctrines"--Provided by publisher.
Why should Australia, or any country, care about issues like poverty, human rights abuses, health crises, and environmental disasters in distant lands, especially when they seem to have no direct impact on our own safety or prosperity? The author, drawing from his experience as Australia’s foreign minister, argues that being a good international citizen—caring about others' suffering and taking reasonable actions to alleviate it—is both a moral duty and a matter of national interest. This perspective is rooted in our shared humanity and a national interest as significant as security and prosperity. Four key benchmarks are crucial in evaluating a country’s performance as a good international citizen: foreign aid generosity, responses to human rights violations, reactions to conflicts and the resulting refugee crises, and contributions to tackling global threats like climate change, pandemics, and nuclear proliferation. Australia’s record on these fronts has been inconsistent, often falling short and currently appearing embarrassingly inadequate. Encouragingly, the issue seems to stem more from governmental actions than from public sentiment. Instead of opting for drastic measures, the public should aim to influence political leaders to adopt a more compassionate approach, holding them accountable through voting if necessary.
A story of loss, survival and unexpected friendship set in a tumultuous period of early European history.
Born in Liverpool in 1949, Tony Cragg is one of a group of young British sculptors who came to the fore in the early 1980s and went on to achieve significant international acclaim. This book includes sculptures, drawings, and graphic works by Cragg. He is constantly weaving new ideas into his work, a creative urge that is closely linked to his use of a wide variety of materials. His explorations in new materials continue -- most recently, a body of work in carbon fiber/Teflar. An anthology of quotations from Cragg's own writings and others elucidate the relationships between concept, form, and material in his work. Tony Cragg lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.
Gareth Evans, einer der brillantesten Philosophen seiner Generation, starb 1980 im Alter von nur 34 Jahren. In seinem unvollendeten Meisterwerk Die Vielfalt der Referenz entwickelt Evans im Ausgang von Frege und Russell eine Theorie des Bezugs und der Bezugnahme im Rahmen einer umfassenderen Theorie des Verstehens und Denkens. John McDowell hat das Manuskript nach Evans' Tod für die Publikation vorbereitet und mit einem Vorwort versehen. Nun ist es erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung zu entdecken: ein Meilenstein der jüngeren Philosophiegeschichte!
