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Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War
Jean Bricmont
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Description for Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War
Paperback. Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers. This work presents describes the leading role of the United States in initiating military and other interventions, but also on the obvious support given to it by European powers and NATO. Translator(s): Johnstone, Diana. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers-above all, the United States-in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and their form more destructive, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan to Iraq. Until the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the large parts of the left was often complicit in this ideology of intervention-discovering new Hitlers as the need arose, and denouncing antiwar arguments as appeasement on the model of Munich ... Read more
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers-above all, the United States-in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and their form more destructive, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan to Iraq. Until the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the large parts of the left was often complicit in this ideology of intervention-discovering new Hitlers as the need arose, and denouncing antiwar arguments as appeasement on the model of Munich ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S. United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781583671474
SKU
V9781583671474
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About Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He is the author of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (with Alan Sokal) and other political and scientific publications.
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