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...rights organization, gathered the Empire State Building conference room, from which several staff members had watched two planes fly into the World Trade Center just one month earlier. There to discuss human rights aspects of the recently-begun air campaign against the Taliban, the human rights specialists also inquired whether the simultaneous dropping of bombs and food aid in any way violated international humanitarian law. What if the food boxes, refrigerator-sized containers designed to break apart mid-fall, malfunctioned and fell whole, injuring civilians?
David Chandler, a Lecturer in International Relations at Brunel University in England and the author of other books on international human rights, did not know of this meeting or surely he would have raised it in his 2002 book From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention. Chandler sees the campaigns in both Kosovo and Afghanistan as illustrative of a new interventionist human rights approach to international policy, which has developed, not between 1999 and 2001 as the title might imply, but in the decade between the sunset of the Cold War and the NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia. Chandler uses the simultaneous dropping of food and bombs in Afghanistan as an illustration of morally vacant compromise between international policy makers, human rights norms, and humanitarian organizations.
In this book, Chandler examines the implications of the human rights approach to international...
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