Humanitarian Imperialism; Using Human Rights to Sell War

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Humanitarian Imperialism Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the World's leading economic and military powers - above all, the United States - in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving and their form more destructive. About Author : Jean Bricmont is Professor of Theoretical physics at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He is the Author of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science (with Alan Sokal) and other political and scientific publications. Contents : Preface Introduction 1. Power and Ideology 2. The Third World and the West 3. Questions to Human Rights Defenders 4. Weak and Strong Arguments against War 5. Illusions and Mystification's 6. The Guilt Weapon 7. Prospects, Dangers and Hopes Notes Bibliography Index