Reading humanitarian intervention : human rights and the use of force in international law / electronic resource
Anne Orford.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages).
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law .
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index.
Watching East Timor -- Misreading the texts of international law -- Localizing the other: the imaginative geography of humanitarian intervention -- Self-determination after humanitarian intervention: the international community and post-conflict reconstruction -- The constitution of the international community: colonial stereotypes and humanitarian narrativies -- Dreams of human rights.
Humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions during the 1990s. This book argues that humanitarian intervention had far more exploitative effects and draws on feminist, postcolonial, legal and psychoanalytic theory to provide an innovative reading of the narratives accompanying humanitarian intervention, a field which has received very little critical analysis. It concludes by considering what has been lost in the transference of concerns from humanitarian intervention to the war on terror
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