Reading humanitarian intervention : human rights and the use of force in international law / Anne Orford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orford, Anne, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 30.

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

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ISBN:

9780511494277

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