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Book title
The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
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A - Authored book
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Publisher of book
Verso Books
ISBN of book
9781844676477
Year of publication
2011
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The book traces a genealogy of the idea of the “lesser evil,” from classical ethics and Christian theology to contemporary debates on humanitarianism. It examines it through a set of spatial investigations of sites of conflict: the relief centres set up by MSF during its 1980s intervention in Ethiopia; the building of the separation wall in Israel–Palestine; and developments in the application of international human rights law in Bosnia, Palestine and Iraq.
Translation to Italian: Il minore dei mali possibili, Rome: Nottetempo, 2013
Translation to Serbo-Croatian: Najmanje od svih mogućih zala, Zagreb: Multimedijalni institut, 2013
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