Political Economy and Humanitatian Intervention: Moral and Intellectual Leadership

In academic and non-academic debates the practice of human rights enforcement is usually reduced to the intentions, interests and capabilities of agents - particularly the United States and other Western states. Whether seen as a policy adopted to promote national interests or an imperialist device used by the West, the practice of human rights enforcement is discussed in isolation from the structure of the late-modern global political economy. This book develops a structural approach to post-Co…