In praise of folly: international administration and the corruption of humanity

• Published in: International affairs (London) Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 525 - 538
• Main Author: BAIN, WILLIAM
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2006; Blackwell Publishers; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Administration; Beneficiaries; Corruption; Democracy; Democratic authority; Freedom; Governance; Human Rights; Humanity; International politics; International Relations; International relations theory; International studies; Management; Normativity; Power relations; Public Administration; Reconciliation; Trust administration

Advocates of international administration tend to embrace conduct and utterance that proposes to vindicate fundamental human rights and freedoms by suspending an important part of its content: the principle that human beings should not be subject to coercion except where they have given their consen...