Table of Contents

About the Author vi

Foreword by Gareth Evans viii

Preface and Acknowledgements xi

List of Abbreviations xvi

Introduction 1

1 Conceptual Building Blocks 5

2 “Humanitarian” Interventions: Thumbnail Sketches 31

3 New Wars and New Humanitarianisms 59

4 New Thinking: The Responsibility to Protect 88

5 So What? Moving from Rhetoric to Reality 119

Notes 155

Selected Readings 183

Index 187

About the Author

Professor of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex