Reading Humanitarian Intervention - Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Paperback)

During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which democracy, self-determination and human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford provides critical readings of the narratives that accompanied such interventions and shaped legal justifications for the use of force by the international community. Through a close reading of legal texts and institutional practice, she argues that a far more circumscribed, exploitative and conservative interpretation of the ends of intervention was adopted during this period. The book draws on a wide range of sources, including critical legal theory, feminist and postcolonial theory, psychoanalytic theory and critical geography, to develop ways of reading directed at thinking through the cultural and economic effects of militarized humanitarianism. The book concludes by asking what, if anything, has been lost in the move from the era of humanitarian intervention to an international relations dominated by wars on terror.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	September 2007
Authors:	Anne Orford
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-04766-1
Categories:	Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law
LSN:	0-521-04766-8
Barcode:	9780521047661

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