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The Thin Blue Line

By Conor Foley

The Thin Blue Line Politics & History

The Thin Blue Line

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The idea that we should "do something" to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights. Yet from Kosovo to Iraq, military interventions have gone disastrously wrong. In this groundbreaking new book, Conor Foley explores how the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has been used to allow states to invade other nations in the name of human rights. Drawing on his own experience of working in over a dozen conflict and post-conflict zones, Foley shows how the growing influence of international law has been used to override the sovereignty of the poorest countries in the world. The Thin Blue Line describes how, in the last twenty years, humanitarianism has emerged as a multibillion dollar industry that has played a leading role in defining humanitarian crises, and shaping the foreign policy of Western governments and the United Nations. Yet, too often, this has been informed by myths and assumptions that rest on ill-informed post-imperial arrogance. Movements set up to show solidarity with the powerless and dispossessed have ended up betraying them instead.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2008-10-31
Publication Date:
2008-09-26
Publisher:
Verso Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1844672891
ISBN13:
9781844672899
Weight:
440 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
217 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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