Legality with a Vengeance: Famines and Humanitarian Relief in 'Complex Emergencies'

1 December 1996

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Millennium: Journal of International Studies

Vol. 25 (3) , 547-575
https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298960250030501

Abstract

Recent studies of 'complex emergencies' interpret famines as linked with wars rather than with economic breakdown. Taking a Derridean approach, this article argues that 'force' was already present in Amartya Sen's notion of entitlements, even in the absence of military conflict. Rather than seeing famines and poverty as problems that call for technical solutions from 'experts', what is needed is political and ethical engagement.

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