Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and Democracy

Taylor & Francis

Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and DemocracyAn Analysis through the Human-Nonhuman Distinction\nAuthor(s): Gustavo Gozzi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367478551, 978-0367478551\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.\n\nThe work analyses the fraught relationship between the Western powers and the Arab countries that have been subject to their colonial rule. It does so by looking at this relationship from two vantage points. On the one hand is that of humanitarian interventiona paradigm under which colonial rule coexisted alongside humanitarian policies pursued on the dual assumption that the colonized were barbarous peoples who wanted to be civilized and that the West could lay a claim.