Reading humanitarian intervention : human rights and the use of force in international law / Anne Orford.
2003
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Author
Title
Reading humanitarian intervention : human rights and the use of force in international law / Anne Orford.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Call Number
KZ6369 .O74 2003
ISBN
0521804647
Description
ix, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)52058133
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
vii
1.
Watching East Timor
1
The era of humanitarian intervention
1
Action and inaction
14
Law and empire
18
The promise of humanitarian intervention
34
2.
Misreading the texts of international law
38
Legal theory and postcolonialism
40
The imperial feminist
56
The power of international law
71
3.
Localizing the other: the imaginative geography of humanitarian intervention
82
Representations of the international
87
The place of the international in a globalized economy
110
Engaging with the international
120
The cartography of intervention
123
4.
Self-determination after intervention: the international community and post-conflict reconstruction
126
Self-determination in an age of intervention: a tale of two territories
127
Self-determination after colonialism
140
Imagining self-determination
143
5.
The constitution of the international community: colonial stereotypes and humanitarian narratives
158
Reading heroic narratives
160
Insecure identification: the productivity of colonial stereotypes
180
6.
Dreams of human rights
186
The end of the human rights era?
187
The haunting of humanitarian intervention
203
The space of human rights
212
Bibliography
220
Index
236