The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War - Softcover

Foley, Conor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844676285 ISBN 13: 9781844676286

Verlag: Verso Books, 2010

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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. 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. 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.

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A humanitarian aid worker, Conor Foley has been employed by a variety of human rights and humanitarian organizations, including Liberty, Amnesty International and the UNHCR, in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Colombia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Liberia, Northern Uganda, the Caucasus and Bosnia-Herzegovina. His books include Combating Torture.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844676285
• ISBN 13: 9781844676286
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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