Reading humanitarian intervention : human rights and the use of force in international law /
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| Author / Creator: | Orford, Anne. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131469 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511063733 9780511063732 0511072198 9780511072192 0511178832 9780511178832 9780511494277 0511494270 0521804647 9780521804646 1280419105 9781280419102 9780521047661 0521047668 0511202911 9780511202919 0511325983 9780511325984 |