The International Humanitarian Order

by Michael Barnett

Book Overview

One of the genuinely remarkable but relatively unnoticed developments of the last half-century is the blossoming of an international humanitarian order - a complex of norms, informal institutions, laws, and discourses that legitimate and compel various kinds of interventions by state and nonstate actors with the explicit goal of preserving and protecting human life. For those who have sacrificed to build this order, and for those who have come...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415776325
• ISBN13: 9780415776325
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.2" x 9.1"