Do nations have a responsibility to protect citizens of other nations? This anthology provides vigorous and fresh perspectives on humanitarian intervention, using normative frameworks and contemporary illustrations to shed light on policy debates. The contributor list reads like a who's-who in the field: Michael Barnett at Wisconsin; Richard Caplan at Oxford; Simon Chesterton at the International Peace Academy; Martin Cook at the U.S. Army War College; Sohail Hashmi at Mt. Holyoke; Julie Mertus at American University; Terry Nardin at Wisconsin; Nicholas Onus at Florida International; Amir Pasic at SAIS-Johns Hopkins; Thomas Weiss at CUNY; and Nicholas Wheeler at the University of Wales. This book does not attempt to make a sustained argument. Rather, it highlights the most significant moral issues in regard to humanitarian intervention. Highlights: Hashmi analyzes how Islamic tradition and Islamic states understand humanitarian intervention; Weiss strongly advocates the use of military force for humanitarian purposes in Yugoslavia; Cook, Caplan, and Mertus raise questions about the use of force in Kosovo; Barnett, drawing on his experience in the UN while it debated how best to respond to Rwandan genocide, discusses how international organizations may be hesitant to use force due to bureaucratic inertia.

The moral basis of humanitarian intervention /Terry Nardin -- Normative frameworks for humanitarian intervention / Nicholas Onuf -- Hard cases make bad law: law, ethics, and politics in humanitarian intervention / Simon Chesterman -- Is there an Islamic ethic of humanitarian intervention? / Sohail H. Hashemi -- Principles, politics, and humanitarian action / Thomas G. Weiss -- The politics of rescue: Yugoslavia's wars and the humanitarian impulse / Amir Pasic and Thomas G. Weiss -- Humanitarian intervention: which way forward? / Richard Caplan -- "Immaculate war": constraints on humanitarian intervention / Martin L. Cook -- The impact of intervention on local human rights culture: a Kosovo case study / Julie Mertus -- Bureaucratizing the duty to aid: the United Nations and Rwandan genocide / Michael Barnett -- Humanitarian intervention after September 11, 2001 / Nicholas J. Wheeler.