Humanitarian Imperialism
Using Human Rights to Sell War

Publisher:  Monthly Review Press
Year Published:  2006
Pages:  176pp   Price:  $17.95   ISBN:  1-58367-147-1
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX8450

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.

Subject Headings

• Humanitarian Intervention
• Humanitarian Missions
• Imperialism
• Intervention