Anne Orford

Reading Humanitarian Intervention

Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uses legal, feminist and postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theory to consider the cultural and economic effects of militarized humanitarianism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521047661
• ISBN-10: 0521047668
• Artikelnr.: 23264753

Autorenporträt

Anne Orford is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Watching East Timor
2. Misreading the texts of international law
3. Localizing the other: the imaginative geography of humanitarian intervention
4. Self-determination after intervention: the international community and post-conflict reconstruction
5. The constitution of the international community: colonial stereotypes and humanitarian narratives
6. Dreams of human rights
Bibliography
Index.