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

Orford, Anne

ISBN 10: 0521804647 / ISBN 13: 9780521804646

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2003

About this Item

Uses legal, feminist and postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theory to consider the cultural and economic effects of militarized humanitarianism. Series Editor(s): Crawford, James; Bell, John. Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPS; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560. . 2003. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law: 30 (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 30)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521804647
• ISBN 13: 9780521804646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

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