Since the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have transitioned through a range of stages. These 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.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Introduction - Aiden Warren and Damian Grenfell
• PART I The Evolution of Humanitarian Interventions in a Global Era
• 1 Rethinking Humanitarian-Military Interventions: Violence and Modernity in an Age of Globalisation - Damian Grenfell
• 2 Peace in the Twenty-First Century: States, Capital and Institutions - Oliver P. Richmond
• 3 The Evolution of Economic Interventions and the Violence of International Accountability over the longue durée - Bronwen Everill
• 4 Changing Patterns of Social Connection across Interventions: Unravelling Aberrant Globalisation - Paul Battersby
• PART II 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
• 6 Humanitarian Intervention? Responding Ethically to Globalising Violence in the Age of Mediated Violence - Paul James
• 7 ‘Manifestly Failing’ and ‘Unwilling or Unable’ as Intervention Formulas: A Critical Assessment - Ingvild Bode
• 8 Interventions and the Limits of the Responsibility to Protect: Regional Organisations and the Global South - Joseph Hongoh
• 9 Regulating the Abstraction of Violence: Interventions and the Deployment of New Technologies Globally - Aiden Warren
• PART III The Politics of Post-intervention (Re-)Building and Humanitarian Engagement
• 10 (Re-)Building the World: Local Agency and Human Security in the New Millennium - Trudy Fraser
• 11 Who Rebuilds? Local Roles in Rebuilding Shattered Societies - Susan H. Allen
• 12 Transforming the Discourse of Civil-Military Interaction in Humanitarian Environments - Vandra Harris