Reading humanitarian intervention : human rights and the use of force in international law / Anne Orford. electronic resource

By:

Orford, Anne

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996)Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511063733
9780511063732
0511072198
9780511072192
0511178832
9780511178832
9780511494277
0511494270

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading humanitarian intervention. DDC classification:

341.48 22

LOC classification:

KZ6369 .O74 2003eb

Other classification:

86.92
KC1302

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index.

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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