Reading humanitarian intervention: human rights and the use of force in international law
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Main Author: Orford, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003
Series:Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996)
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index
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
During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford argues that humanitarian intervention had far more exploitative effects. What, if anything, has been lost in the move from humanitarian intervention to the war on terror?
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 243 pages)
ISBN:0511063733
0511072198
0511178832
9780511063732
9780511072192
9780511178832

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