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| Title | : | The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1844676285 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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.. 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. 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
His books include Combating Torture. . 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
Foley doesn't dissect these dilemmas with enough clarity for a nonexpert reader to understand the pros and cons of modern interventionism. Moreover, Foley is too exasperated by a morass of "too little, too late" missions over the past 15 years to objectively analyze interventionism's touchy relationship to international law. His bitterness suffuses the book, which ends on a hollow prescription: "the need to develop a rather different discourse on human rights interventionism, one which is more modest in recognizing its limitations, but more ambitious in recognizing what needs to be done." (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . From Publishers Weekly British aid worker Foley paints a bleak portrait of humanitarian intervention in this book that exorcises his failed missions during a career with such organizations as Amnesty International and the UNHCR. He refrains from offering solutions and is content to poin
Exemplary Courage David Hillstrom This book is essential. It responds with both compassion and the wisdom of first hand experience to the growing debate over humanitarian crises and how to deal with them. I applaud the author for his courage in volunteering for humanitarian service in some of the most dangero. Anton Tikhomirov said Its Good. I really like Foley's review of humanitarianism in the world. I especially enjoyed the short chapter on the Kosovo war.
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