Samuel Jarvis
Samuel Jarvis is a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at the University of Southampton. Before joining PAIR, Samuel worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, exploring the UK role and reputation as a permanent member of the UN Security Council after the decision to leave the European Union. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Sheffield, for a thesis examining the theoretical foundations of common humanity and its motivational influence on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle. His research primarily focuses on the complex interaction between politics, morality and law at the global level, with particular emphasis on the UN Security Council and international peace and security. Samuel has published research in regard to the normative and practical challenges of motivating international collective action, focusing on issues such as humanitarian intervention, global governance and human rights protection.
Address: Southampton, United Kingdom
Address: Southampton, United Kingdom
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impetus behind the initiative. Despite the centrality of humanity to the potential effectiveness of the RtoP as a force for international change, there has so far been a severe lack of engagement with the specific role humanity is playing in the motivational discourse of RtoP interventions. In response, the chapter will explore the implications of humanity’s relationship to the moral framework that underpins the principle, arguing that the overall motivational capacity of RtoP is more closely tied to the concept of humanity than many supporters and critics have previously suggested. Consequently, the chapter demonstrates how the limitations of humanity’s theoretical consistency and its inherently contested nature have so far resulted in the RtoP struggling to successfully bridge the divide between state indifference and geopolitical and strategic decision making. The chapter therefore concludes that despite attempts to now focus the RtoP project towards more practical implementation strategies, these will remain significantly constrained by normative considerations, as long as the moral imperative of common humanity remains weakly embedded and fundamentally contested.
impetus behind the initiative. Despite the centrality of humanity to the potential effectiveness of the RtoP as a force for international change, there has so far been a severe lack of engagement with the specific role humanity is playing in the motivational discourse of RtoP interventions. In response, the chapter will explore the implications of humanity’s relationship to the moral framework that underpins the principle, arguing that the overall motivational capacity of RtoP is more closely tied to the concept of humanity than many supporters and critics have previously suggested. Consequently, the chapter demonstrates how the limitations of humanity’s theoretical consistency and its inherently contested nature have so far resulted in the RtoP struggling to successfully bridge the divide between state indifference and geopolitical and strategic decision making. The chapter therefore concludes that despite attempts to now focus the RtoP project towards more practical implementation strategies, these will remain significantly constrained by normative considerations, as long as the moral imperative of common humanity remains weakly embedded and fundamentally contested.