Thin Blue Line
Regular price
€25.99
A01=Conor Foley
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Conor Foley
automatic-update
biographies
biography
business
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JPSN
Category=JPSN1
civil disobedience
civil rights
civil rights movement
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
dystopia
economics
education
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=0
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
feminism
foreign policy
geopolitics
government
health
human rights
injustice
international human rights
international politics
international relations
journalism
justice
Language_English
law
leadership
management
military
PA=To order
philosophy
political books
political philosophy
political science
political science books
politics
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
security
social justice
society
sociology
softlaunch
technology
war
work
world politics
Product details
- ISBN 9781844676286
- Weight: 309g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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. 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. 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.
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. His books include Combating Torture.
