With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion…

This book shows how institutional concerns within the international humanitarian system, combined with the domestic context of armed conflicts, often yield policies that do not serve the immediate requirements of…

Looks at the contemporary context and history of military-civilian interactions, developing a framework for assessing military costs and civilian benefits, and examining in depth seven prominent cases from the 1990s.

This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant…

The responsibility to protect (R2P) is at a crossroads, the latest in a journey that is only ten years old. The aim of this work is to link the present…

This book addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the…

In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration included development targets to be reached by 2015, which were to become known…

Once celebrated as an answer to the myriad ills of the post-Cold War era, global governance is now in trouble. Written by two of the leading scholars in the field…