Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an Evolving World Order.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 22 December 1998
• Author: Hopfe, Cathleen
• Published date: 22 December 1998
• Author: Hopfe, Cathleen

SEAN D. MURPHY, HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: THE UNITED NATIONS IN AN EVOLVING WORLD ORDER, University of Pennsylvania Press; Philadelphia (1996); ISBN 0 81223-382-4; 427 pp. (hardcover).

In a comprehensive study of humanitarian intervention and its relevance to the United Nations, author Sean D. Murphy has provided rare scholarship. HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: THE UNITED NATIONS IN AN EVOLVING WORLD ORDER may, indeed, be the only work of its kind on a subject of ever more political, legal and ethical importance. As such, this monograph is an invaluable and timely contribution to the contemporary polemics of humanitarian intervention -- particularly in light of the recent horrors of Rawanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the awakening of the international community to seek and demand solutions to mitigate human suffering caused by corrupt or ineffectual governments. Edited by Burns H. Weston, the book is the twenty-first volume in the Procedural Aspects of International Law Series. This series has been devoted to diverse areas of international legal studies by high profile scholars for over thirty years. HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION is a fine addition to this body of work.

The author begins this study with an analysis of what "humanitarian...