International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

by Andrew Gilbert

In International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy Andrew C. Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters. He discusses the transformations that happen in everyday engagements between intervention agents and their target populations, and also identifies key instabilities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501750267
• ISBN13: 9781501750267
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher