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- Title: Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Book Review)
- Author : Melbourne University Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 316 KB
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Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law by Anne Orford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) pages i-ix, 1-256. Price A$150.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0 52180 464 7. [Mainstream conceptions of the relationship between international law and power have significant limitations which lead to a consistent underestimation of the power of international law in constituting and maintaining the hierarchical relationship between North and South and render invisible what are arguably international law's own imperialising urges. This review essay situates Reading Humanitarian Intervention within the broader body of critical approaches which challenge this blindness. It argues that Orford's work is a compelling addition to that corpus, particularly in its sophisticated reconceptualisation of power in the context of putatively humanitarian interventions and its pointed consideration of the congruence of the military and the economic. The essay concludes by embracing Orford's emphasis on critique as a political strategy, but wonders whether a necessary complement to the methodologies, both of this book, and of critical international law scholarship more generally, demands an increased attention to the nature of modern law. Such a focus would trouble the seemingly emancipatory possibility of a (re)turn to human rights and demand a relational, rather than refounded, understanding of international law.]