At the 2005 UN World Summit, world leaders endorsed the international principle of
Responsibility to Protect (R2P), acknowledging that they had a responsibility to protect their …

This article introduces this special issue of The Journal of Strategic Studies by discussing
the British model of counter-insurgency. General (later Field Marshal) Sir Gerald Templer …

The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant
ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical questions surrounding the ethics of modern …

This book has been three years in the making. A number of chapters began life as shorter
entries in the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics (2005) …

For nearly thirty-five years, the international legal community has relied on one ambitious yet
humble volume as a starting point for legal questions. This classic red volume is a one-of-a …

The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as
drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges …

When is it permissible to move an issue out of normal politics and treat it as a security issue?
How should the security measures be conducted? When and how should the securitization …

International responses to the outbreak of SARS, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the promotion
of health as a human right all demonstrate how global politics have a profound effect on the …

Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility
to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression …

What are the ethical principles underpinning the idea of a just war and how should they be
adapted to changing social and military circumstances? In this book, Steven P. Lee presents …