 IN THE FAILING IDEA OF DEMOCRACY, REVISITING THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITYMeriem Guerilli FIAT IUSTITIA, 2018, vol. 12, issue 2, 113-125 Abstract: Since the uprising in March 2011, Syrian people have been transformed from active protesters against the regime to desperate seekers of an asylum. The study highlights how callers for democracy became claimants of basic human dignity from the international community and examined how the responsibility to protect (R2P) could not be as effective as it should be to the Syrian case. This research work also focused on the unsuccessful examples of the other Arab fledgling democracies that had fallen prey to the same wave of revolt. More precisely, it concentrated on the Syrian crisis and how it turned to be a global battle field to provide an appropriate answer to the question about whether the R2P initiatives were to save Syrian people or to save the Syrian regime under the pretext of terrorism. Overall, this study displays the changing meaning of human values and lists the various techniques adopted by the international community to protect the superpowers best interests as the Security Council decides about Syria's future. The Syrian dilemma is far from being described as yet no clear end to people's suffering. Keywords: human dignity; R2P; Syria; International Community (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dcu:journl:v:12:y:2018:i:2:p:113-125 Access Statistics for this article More articles in FIAT IUSTITIA from Dimitrie Cantemir Faculty of Law Cluj Napoca, Romania |
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