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Contemporary States of Emergency - The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (Hardcover)
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Contemporary States of Emergency - The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (Hardcover)
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The new form of "humanitarian government" emerging from natural
disasters and military occupations that reduces people to mere
lives to be rescued. From natural disaster areas to zones of
political conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention
combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral
imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of
legitimacy and legality. The mandate to protect human lives-however
and wherever endangered-has given rise to a new form of
humanitarian government that moves from one crisis to the next,
applying the same battery of technical expertise (from military
logistics to epidemiological risk management to the latest social
scientific tools for "good governance") and reducing people with
particular histories and hopes to mere lives to be rescued. This
book explores these contemporary states of emergency. Drawing on
the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political
scientists, and practitioners from the field. Contemporary States
of Emergency examines historical antecedents as well as the moral,
juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made
military and humanitarian interventions common today. It addresses
the practical process of intervention in global situations on five
continents, describing both differences and similarities, and
examines the moral and political consequences of these generalized
states of emergency and the new form of government associated with
them.
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