num_pages: 260
description: 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.
language: English
title: Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law
titlecomplete: Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 30)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 15
series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
publisher: Cambridge University Press