Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions

Michael Newman

May, 2009
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15424-6
$27.50

"Michael Newman addresses the vexed moral and legal issues surrounding intervention with a scrupulous seriousness. Seeking out the complexities and ambiguities inherent in practice and scholarship, Newman impressively and effectively deploys his research in support of his arguments." — Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, University of London

"Humanitarian Intervention unpacks the contradictions of this controversial topic in ways that are both scholarly and accessible to those who might be unfamiliar with relevant literature. A range of examples engage as well as inform the reader by relating the arguments to specific cases in point." — Marjorie Mayo, author of Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Political Theory

About the Author

Michael Newman is Jean Monnet Professor of European Studies and professor of politics at the University of North London. His previous books include Harold Laski: A Political Biography, John Strachy, and Democracy, Sovereignty, and the European Union.

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