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 ...

Over the last two decades the United States has intervened militarily in several countries to protect human rights. Now, writes historian Mark Mazower in World Affairs, “The concept of humanitarian ...

Based on these missteps, I propose five principles to guide humanitarian intervention, all of which apply to Libya: •Do not intervene on humanitarian grounds in ways that benefit rebels unless the ...

Former UK Liberal Democrat leader, Lord Ashdown has called upon the international humanitarian community to find new ways of responding to the natural and man-made disasters of the 21st century. His ...

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 ...

Many Democrats against U.S. intervention in Syria cite the American experience in Iraq as a basis for their opposition to a military strike against the Assad regime. “The Iraq thing is why people have ...

As the humanitarian crisis worsens in the Nagorno-Karabagh of Azerbaijan amid ongoing tensions with neighboring Armenia, System of a Down‘s Serj Tankian has drafted an open letter urging stronger ...