Humanitarian intervention” sells itself as a moral shortcut: bypass the messy politics, send in the troops, stop the monster.

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 ...

As the United States and Russia begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, I can’t shake off an episode that, in retrospect, was the first step down the slippery slope leading to war. In the summer ...

In a guest post on Micah Zenko’s blog, Amelia Wolf discusses the future of humanitarian intervention. She explains: While the international community is fixated on what world leaders are not doing or ...

The Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon killed almost 200 people, injured thousands, caused US$10 billion to US$15 billion in damage and displaced 300,000 people. Despite the strong show of... Even ...

IN 2011, the world watched as NATO fighter jets streaked across Libyan skies under the banner of “humanitarian intervention.” The stated goal was to protect civilians from Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.

While we await news from the talks taking place between the US and Iran in Geneva today, let’s look at reaction to what’s happening on the ground in Iran. The son of the country’s last shah called ...

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan. President Obama faces increasing pressure to intervene in Syria, where the civil war has killed an estimated 70,000 people and displaced more than a million ...

With great fanfare, before a crowd of 800,000, with 1,000 bishops and 150 cardinals in attendance and a TV audience of several millions, the Vatican recently added two new saints... Three years after ...