Since the end of the Cold War, the question of whether humanitarian crises justify military intervention has played a prominent role in foreign policy debates. While the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

The debate over whether humanitarian intervention justifies the violation of state sovereignty remains one of the most enduring and contested questions in international relations and international law ...

Humanitarian intervention is intervention forced upon a sovereign state. It is either arbitrarily undertaken by one state or collectively by a group of states (at times under the platform of an ...

Prior to World War II, few harbored any expectation that the United States—or any nation—would intervene in humanitarian crises in other countries. The United States was deeply isolationist on a ...