Beschreibung:
A study, from Hobbes to the UN, of attempts to ground authority on the capacity to guarantee protection.
1. Protection in the shadow of empire; 2. Practices of protection: from the parliament of man to international executive rule; 3. How to recognise lawful authority: Hobbes, Schmitt and the responsibility to protect; 4. Who decides? Who interprets?: jurisdiction, recognition and the institutionalisation of protection; 5. The question of status and the subject of protection.