World Orders in the Making

Other books by the author include "White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture" (Yale UP, 1992) and "Empire and Emancipation" (Praeger 1989, Pluto 1990), which received the 1990 JC Ruigrok award of the Netherlands Society of Sciences.

Humanitarian action confronts us with the dilemmas of international relations in the age of globalization. Humanitarian intervention is considered from the point of view of political economy, public administration, international relations, international law, the military, political theory, sociology, culture and media studies.Humanitarian action confronts us with the dilemmas of international relations in the age of globalization. The approach in this book is holistic, comparative and analytical. Humanitarian intervention is considered from the point of view of political economy, public administration, international relations, international law, the military, political theory, sociology, culture and media studies. Chapters discuss experiences across Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Iraq, Haiti and other cases, if we are moving towards global governance humanitarian intervention is part of this motion. It is a harbinger of a new global politics, which is all the more reason to consider it scrupulously.