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Reading Humanitarian Intervention Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law

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ISBN-10: 0521804647

ISBN-13: 9780521804646

Edition: 2003

Authors: Anne Orford, John Bell, James Crawford

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Drawing on a wide range of sources, including critical legal theory, feminist and postcolonial theory, psychoanalytical theory and critical geography, this text develops ways of reading directed at thinking through the cultural and economic effects of militarised humanitarianism.
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Book details

List price: $147.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/26/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.29" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Anne Orford is the Michael D. Kirby Professor of International Law, an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne. She researches in the areas of international law and legal theory, with a current focus on histories of international law, political theology and empire.

John Bell is Assistant Professor of Innovative Communication Design at the University of Maine.

Nico Schrijver holds the Chair of International Law and is Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. He is author of The Evolution of Sustainable Development in International Law: Inception, Meaning, and Status and Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties.

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