Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science, City College of New York/City University of New York, and a Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Eugene B. Rumer, is Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (MIT Press, 2015). His most recent book for Oxford University Press, The End of Alliances, was published in 2007 and was named by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Title for that year.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Animating IdeaChapter 2: Altruism's LimitsChapter 3: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and InterventionChapter 4: The Legal DebateChapter 5: Human Rights and InterventionChapter 5: The Primacy of PragmatismChapter 7: War and Post-WarChapter 8: "The International Community"Conclusion

Menon brilliantly explicates the several fallacies of the interventionists, while at the same time keeping the door open for intervention in reaction to atrocities when geopolitical forces are effectively aligned and the likely costs realistically taken into account.

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science, City College of New York/City University of New York, and a Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Eugene B. Rumer, is Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (MIT Press, 2015). His most recent book for Oxford University Press, The End of Alliances, was published in 2007 and was named by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Title for that year.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Animating IdeaChapter 2: Altruism's LimitsChapter 3: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and InterventionChapter 4: The Legal DebateChapter 5: Human Rights and InterventionChapter 5: The Primacy of PragmatismChapter 7: War and Post-WarChapter 8: "The International Community"Conclusion

Menon brilliantly explicates the several fallacies of the interventionists, while at the same time keeping the door open for intervention in reaction to atrocities when geopolitical forces are effectively aligned and the likely costs realistically taken into account.

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science, City College of New York/City University of New York, and a Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Eugene B. Rumer, is Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (MIT Press, 2015). His most recent book for Oxford University Press, The End of Alliances, was published in 2007 and was named by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Title for that year.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Animating IdeaChapter 2: Altruism's LimitsChapter 3: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and InterventionChapter 4: The Legal DebateChapter 5: Human Rights and InterventionChapter 5: The Primacy of PragmatismChapter 7: War and Post-WarChapter 8: "The International Community"Conclusion

Menon brilliantly explicates the several fallacies of the interventionists, while at the same time keeping the door open for intervention in reaction to atrocities when geopolitical forces are effectively aligned and the likely costs realistically taken into account.