Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
Human rights, peacekeeping, and humanitarian intervention have emerged in the past decades as important components of international law and practice. Adopting a methodology of institutional ethnography informed by actor-network theory, this book traces the practices of law and expertise from intergovernmental organization headquarters to the field and back again, and through various contemporary field missions from Bosnia to Afghanistan and East Timor to Sierra Leone.
It answers several fundamental questions:
How is human rights law engaged in establishing the peace, rebuilding the nation, and restoring the rule of law in post-conflict situations?
How do human rights experts use law in their everyday work in the context of humanitarian intervention?
How are law and expertise established, sustained, and transformed in the field?
Offering a complex and nuanced explanation of humanitarian intervention based upon a multi-dimensional understanding of law and power, this book will be of interest and use to scholars, students, and practitioners in international law and policy, human rights, and humanitarian intervention. Its cross-disciplinary approach should also appeal to the professional communities engaged directly and indirectly with projects of humanitarian intervention including staff at intergovernmental organizations, international lawyers and practitioners, and activists.
Elizabeth M. Bruch is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. She previously taught at the University of British Columbia, and on the law faculty at Amer-ican Universitys Washington College of Law, Arizona State University College of Law, and Valparaiso University School of Law. She also worked as a human rights lawyer and served for two years as the executive officer of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Global Institutions
Edited by Thomas G. Weiss
The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA and Rorden Wilkinson
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
About the series
The Global Institutions Series provides cutting-edge books about many aspects of what we know as global governance. It emerges from our shared frustrations with the state of available knowledgeelectronic and print-wise, for research and teachingin the area. The series is designed as a resource for those interested in exploring issues of international organization and global governance. And since the first volumes appeared in 2005, we have taken significant strides toward filling conceptual gaps.
The series consists of three related streams distinguished by their blue, red, and green covers. The blue volumes, comprising the majority of the books in the series, provide user-friendly and short (usually no more than 50,000 words) but authoritative guides to major global and regional organizations, as well as key issues in the global governance of security, the environment, human rights, poverty, and humanitarian action among others. The books with red covers are designed to present original research and serve as extended and more specialized treatments of issues pertinent for advancing understanding about global governance. And the volumes with green coversthe most recent departure in the seriesare comprehensive and accessible accounts of the major theoretical approaches to global governance and international organization.
The books in each of the streams are written by experts in the field, ranging from the most senior and respected authors to first-rate scholars at the beginning of their careers. In combination, the three components of the seriesblue, red, and greenserve as key resources for faculty, students, and practitioners alike. The works in the blue and green streams have value as core and complementary readings in courses on, among other things, international organization, global governance, international law, international relations, and international political economy; the red volumes allow further reflection and investigation in these and related areas.
The books in the series also provide a segue to the foundation volume that offers the most comprehensive textbook treatment available dealing with all the major issues, approaches, institutions, and actors in contemporary global governanceour edited work Interna-tional Organization and Global Governance (2014)a volume to which many of the authors in the series have contributed essays.
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edited by Cedric de Coning and Eli Stamnes
Displacement, Development, and Climate Change (2016)
by Nina Hall
UN Security Council Reform (2016)
by Peter Nadin
International Organizations and Military Affairs (2016)
by Hylke Dijkstra
The International Committee of the Red Cross (2nd edition, 2016)
by David P. Forsythe and Barbara Ann J. Rieffer-Flanagan
The Arctic Council (2016)
by Douglas C. Nord
Human Development and Global Institutions (2016)
by Richard Ponzio and Arunabha Ghosh
First published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Bruch, Elizabeth M., author.
Title: Human rights and humanitarian intervention : law and practice in the field / Elizabeth M. Bruch.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge global institutions series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016013526| ISBN 9781138190559 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315639741 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Humanitarian intervention. | International law and human rights | Humanitarian interventionSocial aspects.
