Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century

Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Search for Global Security (Rowman Littlefield) and The Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague (Routledge). Dr Warren is also co-editor of Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press) and Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century (Routledge). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy (IISTP), George Washington University, and Asia-Pacific Fellow at James Martin Center for Non-proliferation, Washington DC. Damian Grenfell is Director of the Centre for Global Research, RMIT, Australia. He is the lead editor of Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? (Routledge, 2008).

• Abbreviations/Acronyms ForewordShirley V. ScottIntroductionAiden Warren and Damian GrenfellPart I: The Evolution of Humanitarian Interventions in a Global Era1: Rethinking Humanitarian-Military Interventions: Violence and Modernity in an Age of GlobalizationDamian Grenfell2: Peace in the Twenty-First Century: States, Capital and InstitutionsOliver P. Richmond3: The Evolution of Economic Interventions and the Violence of International Accountability over the longue duréeBronwen Everill4: Changing Patterns of Social Connection across Interventions: Unravelling Aberrant GlobalizationPaul BattersbyPart II: The Limits of Sovereignty and the Ethics of Interventions 5: A Framework for Reimagining Order and Justice: Transitions in Violence and Interventions in a Global EraMichaelene Cox6: Humanitarian Intervention? Responding Ethically to Globalizing Violence in the Age of Mediated ViolencePaul James7: 'Manifestly Failing' and 'Unwilling or Unable' as Intervention Formulas: A Critical AssessmentIvi Bode8: Interventions and the Limits of the Responsibility to Protect: Regional Organizations and the Global SouthJoseph Hongoh9: Regulating the Abstraction of Violence: Interventions and the Deployment of New Technologies GloballyAiden WarrenPart III: The Politics of Post-Intervention: (re)-building and humanitarian engagement10: (Re)Building the world: Local Agency and Human Security in the New MillenniumTrudy Fraser11: Who Rebuilds? Local Roles in Rebuilding Shattered SocietiesSusan H. Allen12: Transforming the Discourse of Civil-Military Interaction for Humanitarian EnvironmentsVandra HarrisBibliography

This thought-provoking volume makes a significant contribution to debates about intervention. Eschewing conventional approaches to the subject, the book tackles some key issues, from the evolution of humanitarian interventions, the limitations of sovereignty, through to the politics of post-intervention (re)-building and humanitarianism. Important case studies from Timor-Leste to Syria and Libya are also included. This timely book will be of interest to both scholarly and policy audiences.