Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-313) and index.
Emergency, colonialism, and third world approaches to international law -- Racialisation and states of emergency -- Emergency doctrine : a colonial account -- Emergency derogations and the international human rights project -- Kenya : a "purely political" state of emergency -- The margin of appreciation doctrine : colonial origins -- Palestine : a "scattered, shattered space of exception"? -- Australia : racialised emergency intervention -- International law, resistance, and "real" states of emergency