How was the military intervention in Afghanistan legally justified?
This thesis suggests that the war in Afghanistan, which was of dubious legality, was legitimated by the US and its allies through repeated deployment of a gendered heroic narrative that focussed on liberating Afghan women. This narrative presented the US and its allies as chivalrous white knights re...
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University of Strathclyde
2015
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693163 |