Contemporary states of emergency : the politics of military and humanitarian interventions / edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Military and humanitarian government in the age of intervention / Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi -- The idea of emergency : humanitarian action and global (dis)order / Craig Calhoun -- The politics of catastrophization : emergency and exception / Adi Ophir -- Emergency-based predatory capitalism : the rule of law, alternative dispute resolution, and development / Ugo Mattei -- Utopias of power : from human security to the responsibility to protect / Chowra Makaremi -- Between compassion and conservatism : a genealogy of humanitarian sensibilities / Vanessa Pupavac -- From paradox to paradigm : the permanent state of emergency in the Balkans / Mariella Pandolfi -- The verge of crisis : doctors without borders in Uganda / Peter Redfield -- Compassionate militarization : the management of a natural disaster in Venezuela / Paula Vásquez Lezama -- From denial to emergency : governing indigenous communities in Australia / Deirdre Howard-Wagner -- Complex engagements : responding to violence in postconflict Aceh / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good, and Jesse Grayman -- Heart of humaneness : the moral economy of humanitarian intervention / Didier Fassin -- An emancipatory imperium? Power and principle in the humanitarian government / Alex de Waal -- Benevolent dictatorship : the formal logic of humanitarian government / Laurence McFalls -- The passions of protection : sovereign authority and humanitarian war / Anne Orford -- Experts, reporters, witnesses : the making of anthropologists in states of emergency / George E. Marcus.

"Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency first examines the historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions possible today. It ten addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, illustrating the diversity as well as the parallels between contemporary forms of military and humanitarian interventions. Finally, it investigates the ethical and political consequences of the generalization of states of emergency and the humanitarian government that they entail. The authors thus seek to understand a critical question that confronts the world today: How and why have military and humanitarian interventions transformed the international order such that what was once a logic of exception has now become the rule of contemporary global politics?"--BOOK JACKET.

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