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Orford, Anne

Reading Humanitarian Intervention : Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law / Anne Orford - 1st Ed. - New York, USA Cambridge University Press 2003 - ix, 243p. : ill. ; 23cm - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law .

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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.


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pp i-iv
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Contents
pp v-vi
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Preface
pp vii-x
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Select 1 - Watching East Timor

1 - Watching East Timor
pp 1-37
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Select 2 - Misreading the texts of international law

2 - Misreading the texts of international law
pp 38-81
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Select 3 - Localizing the other: the imaginative geography of humanitarian intervention

3 - Localizing the other: the imaginative geography of humanitarian intervention
pp 82-125
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Select 4 - Self-determination after intervention: the international community and post-conflict reconstruction

4 - Self-determination after intervention: the international community and post-conflict reconstruction
pp 126-157
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Select 5 - The constitution of the international community: colonial stereotypes and humanitarian narratives

5 - The constitution of the international community: colonial stereotypes and humanitarian narratives
pp 158-185
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Select 6 - Dreams of human rights

6 - Dreams of human rights
pp 186-219
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Bibliography
pp 220-235
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Index
pp 236-243
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Select CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW
pp 244-246



ISBN: 9780521047661 (paperback)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights; Humanitarian intervention; Intervention (International law)

Dewey Class. No.: 341.584 ORF