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 global IGO 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...
Human rights, peacekeeping, and humanitarian intervention have emerged in the past decades as important components of international law and practic...