Contemporary states of emergency
Subtitle: the politics of military and humanitarian interventions
By: edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolf.
Contributors: Fassin, Didier.; Pandolfi, Mariella.
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781935408000
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian assistance; Emergency management -- International cooperation; Disaster relief -- International cooperation; Conflict management -- International cooperation
Description: "Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency first examines the historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions possible today. It ten addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, illustrating the diversity as well as the parallels between contemporary forms of military and humanitarian interventions. Finally, it investigates the ethical and political consequences of the generalization of states of emergency and the humanitarian government that they entail. The authors thus seek to understand a critical question that confronts the world today: How and why have military and humanitarian interventions transformed the international order such that what was once a logic of exception has now become the rule of contemporary global politics?"--Jacket.