Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights And The Use Of Force In International Law (cambridge Studies In International And Comparative Law)
by Anne Orford /
2003 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
