Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 30) - Hardcover

Orford, Anne

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9780521804646: Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 30)
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ISBN 10: 0521804647 ISBN 13: 9780521804646
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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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Anne Orford is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of Melbourne.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521804647
ISBN 13 
9780521804646
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
260
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