Reading Humanitarian Intervention

' ... one of the many compelling aspects of Orford's book is her ability to generalise the central insistence of how a question, or set of choices, becomes framed in the international context ... the pertinence to the discipline as a whole of understanding how a question comes to be asked is one of the reasons why Orford's book will deservedly have a committed readership well beyond scholars of international humanitarian law ... Reading Humanitarian Intervention usefully teases out the relationship between law and power ... situating Orford's work within a broader body of critical international law scholarship ... timely and powerful' Melbourne University Law Review '... a useful contribution to the debate.' Journal of Peace Research 'Dealing with themes that have been a magnet for an array of pieties by moralists and legalists in recent years. Anne Orford challenges conventional wisdom in a provocative and persuasive manner. She brings an intelligent and informed skepticism to claims by governments and international institutions that their use of force in the pursuit of humane ends is beneficial for the peoples that are supposedly being protected from adversity ... It deserves the widest possible reading, and is a fine complement to the more conventional book[s].' Political Science Quarterly '... the book has a broader appeal than just to lawyers ...' Common Law World Review '... an innovative, provocative, and challenging text on international law, a very rare accomplishment indeed [which offers] a theoretically rich, yet engaging analysis of the debates in international law and politics on humanitarian intervention ...' Social and Legal Studies '... eloquent and challenging...' Modern Law Review