Cooperating Against Small-State Marginalization

A Postcolonial Perspective on UNSC Resolution 1529 in Haiti

Bibliographic Data

ID24315579
AuthorsRita Kiki Edozie
Year2008
Volume5
Issue1
Pages95-114
Publication date2008-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDu Bois Review Social Science Research on Race (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1742-058X • E-ISSN: 1742-0598
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1742058x08080090
OpenAlexW2010986153
LanguageEN
References cited23

Employing postcolonial critical international relations theory as its theoretical bedrock, this article uses the U.N.-U.S.-French-led humanitarian intervention in Haiti in 2004 to examine top-tier states' claims to universal human rights and bottom-tier states' claims to sovereign national democratic rights. This article critically interrogates both the theoretical and policy assumptions of an emergent interventionism by the North into the South, and examines Haitian social forces and their pan-African allies (CARICOM, the AU, and CBC), who are opposed to the universalist appropriation and imposition of a rights domain that curtails freedom in the international arena.

African Union · CARICOM · Humanitarian intervention · Pan-Africanism · state sovereignty · universal human rights · Universalism · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · International Relations and Foreign Policy