During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which democracy, self-determination and human rights would be privileged over national

Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers�

The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging hi

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. Over the past 20 years the United Nations has

An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.