Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century

Examines the complex ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention Since the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have transitioned through a range of stages. These 13 essays focus on the challenges associated with interventions, conflict and attendant human rights violations, unmitigated and systematic violence, state re-building, and issues associated with human mobility and dislocation. Each chapter is linked to the rest through three defining themes that permeate the book: the evolution of humanitarian interventions in a global era; the limits of sovereignty and the ethics of interventions; and the politics of post-intervention: (re)-building and humanitarian engagement. Key Features

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; Foreword: Shirley V. Scott (University of New South Wales, Sydney); Introduction: Aiden Warren and Damian Grenfell (RMIT University, Melbourne); Part One: The Evolution of Humanitarian Interventions in a Global Era; 1. Rethinking Humanitarian-Military Interventions: Violence and Modernity in an Age of Globalization (Damian Grenfell, RMIT University, Melbourne); 2. Peace in the Twenty-First Century: States, Capital and Institutions (Oliver P. Richmond, University of Manchester, Manchester); 3. The Evolution of Economic Interventions and the Violence of International Accountability over the longue durée (Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge, Cambridge); 4. Changing Patterns of Social Connection across Interventions: Unravelling Aberrant Globalization (Paul Battersby, RMIT University, Melbourne); 2. 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 Era (Michaelene Cox, Illinois State University); 6. Humanitarian Intervention? Responding Ethically to Globalizing Violence in the Age of Mediated Violence (Paul James, University of Western Sydney, Sydney); 7. "Manifestly Failing" and "Unwilling or Unable" as Intervention Formulas: A Critical Assessment (Ivi Bode, United of Kent, Canterbury); 8. Interventions and the Limits of the Responsibility to Protect: Regional Organizations and the Global South (Joseph Hongoh, University of Queensland, Brisbane); 9. Regulating the Abstraction of Violence: Interventions and the Deployment of New Technologies Globally (Aiden Warren, RMIT University, Melbourne); Part Three: The politics of post-intervention (re)-building and humanitarian engagement; Chapter 10. (Re)Building the world: Local Agency and Human Security in the New Millennium (Trudy Fraser, Global Action to Prevent War, New York); 11. Who Rebuilds? Local Roles in Rebuilding Shattered Societies (Susan H. Allen, George Mason University); 12. Transforming the Discourse of Civil-Military Interaction for Humanitarian Environments (Vandra Harris, RMIT University, Melbourne); Bibliography.