Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions

Book Overview

The new form of "humanitarian government" emerging from natural disasters and military occupations that reduces people to mere lives to be rescued.

From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and legality. The mandate to protect human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935408011
• ISBN13: 9781935408017
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher