• Publication date: 07/2005
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue: 3
Foreword

Humanitarian intervention is a noble concept that is easily subject to misinterpretation and abuse. Traditional ‘humanitarian intervention’ debates focus primarily on the interventionist or the potential interventionist rather than on the urgent needs of the beneficiary of such action. Contemporary discourse regarding this topic is not very different from familiar arguments about the legality of intervention, concern over violation of sovereignty, rational justification for intervention, the process of intervention, and ramifications to the national interest of interveners. Again the focus is mainly on the needs and wants of interventionists.

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Editor John Janzekovic