War is about individuals maiming and killing each other, and yet, it seems that it is also
irreducibly collective, as it is fought by groups of people and more often than not for the sake …

Russia has been embroiled in bitter disputes with major Western powers over high-profile
military interventions-over Kosovo (1999), Iraq (2003), Georgia (2008), and even Libya …

This book explores attempts to develop a more acceptable account of the principles and
mechanisms associated with humanitarian intervention, which has become known as the …

Humanitarianism rivals security in its ability to legitimize emergency measures, and has also
proven to be as ambiguous and open to abuse. In this article, humanitarianism is …

What are the ethical principles underpinning the idea of a just war and how should they be
adapted to changing social and military circumstances? In this book, Steven P. Lee presents …

This book proposes a new approach to studying the effectiveness of peace operations. It
asks not whether peace operations work or why, but how: when a peace operation achieves …

This essay seeks to extend the already controversial debate about humanitarian intervention
by exploring the morality, legality, and legitimacy of ecological intervention and its corollary …

For far too long the discipline of International Relations has failed to engage with the study of
genocide. This is despite the fact that genocide holds a direct relationship with the central …

Beginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United
Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on …

This article seeks to test the assumption that realism is completely hostile to the ethical and
political notions of humanitarian intervention. The popular understanding of realism states …