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    Multilateralism as Terror: International Law, Haiti and Imperialism

    Miéville, China (2008) Multilateralism as Terror: International Law, Haiti and Imperialism. Finnish Yearbook of International Law 19 , pp. 63-92. ISSN 0786-6453.

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    Abstract

    Much of the liberal criticism of the Bush administration's prosecution of the war in Iraq has taken a legalistic form, decrying that law as 'illegal'. This criticism has often implied that US unilateralism has been definitional to the neoconservative project and the geopolitical moment, and that a contrasting and supposedly non-existent 'multilateralism' would be neither illegal nor objectionable. The overthrow of Haiti's President Jean-Bertrande Aristide in 2004 and the subsequent installing of UN MINUSTAH peace-keepers in the country was a model multilateral action, the fact of which should have problematised this model: its almost wholesale ignoring in the scholarly international law literature is therefore investigated. The intervention is understood as a successful imperialist action, and the argument made that multilateralism as much as unilateralism can easily be part of an imperialist strategy.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): International Law, Haiti, Imperialism, Unilateralism, Multilateralism
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School
    Depositing User: Dr China Mieville
    Date Deposited: 12 Jun 2009 11:59
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:48
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/783

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