Fernando R. Tesón is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. He is the author, inter alia, of Justice at a Distance: Extending Freedom Globally (Cambridge University Press, 2015) [with Loren Lomasky] and Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality , 3rd ed. (Transnational Publishers 2005), and dozens of articles in specialized journals.Bas van der Vossen is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Smith Institute of Political Economy and Philosophy and the Philosophy Department at Chapman University. His research focuses on questions in political philosophy, and he is an Associate Editor of the journal Social Philosophy and Policy.

the book is an excellent contribution in terms of bringing together different arguments on intervention, the moral dilemma involved and the implicit political logic...the book...presents a much more condensed and balanced overview. It would be of great help to students and researchers working on issues pertaining to sovereignty, international justice, intervention and non-intervention to find multiple sources in a single book.

• IntroductionFernando Tesón and Bas van der Vossen Part I: A defense of humanitarian intervention Fernando Tesón1. Humanitarian intervention as defense of persons2. Just cause in humanitarian intervention3. Intervention and revolution: the equivalence thesis4. Proportionality in humanitarian intervention5. Further issues in humanitarian interventionAPPENDIX: The Iraq war Part II: Humanitarian non-intervention Bas van der Vossen6. A presumption against intervention7. Between internal and external threats8. Why sovereignty (still) matters9. The success condition10. Justice ex post or ex ante?11. Three structural problems12. Looking for exceptions13. Humanitarian non-intervention

Fernando R. Tesón is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. He is the author, inter alia, of Justice at a Distance: Extending Freedom Globally (Cambridge University Press, 2015) [with Loren Lomasky] and Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality , 3rd ed. (Transnational Publishers 2005), and dozens of articles in specialized journals.Bas van der Vossen is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Smith Institute of Political Economy and Philosophy and the Philosophy Department at Chapman University. His research focuses on questions in political philosophy, and he is an Associate Editor of the journal Social Philosophy and Policy.

the book is an excellent contribution in terms of bringing together different arguments on intervention, the moral dilemma involved and the implicit political logic...the book...presents a much more condensed and balanced overview. It would be of great help to students and researchers working on issues pertaining to sovereignty, international justice, intervention and non-intervention to find multiple sources in a single book.

• IntroductionFernando Tesón and Bas van der Vossen Part I: A defense of humanitarian intervention Fernando Tesón1. Humanitarian intervention as defense of persons2. Just cause in humanitarian intervention3. Intervention and revolution: the equivalence thesis4. Proportionality in humanitarian intervention5. Further issues in humanitarian interventionAPPENDIX: The Iraq war Part II: Humanitarian non-intervention Bas van der Vossen6. A presumption against intervention7. Between internal and external threats8. Why sovereignty (still) matters9. The success condition10. Justice ex post or ex ante?11. Three structural problems12. Looking for exceptions13. Humanitarian non-intervention