C. A. J. Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University. His books include the influential Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992) and the widely cited Morality and Political Violence (2008). In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, subsequently published as Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics (2008).Dr. Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The New Pacifism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Dobos was a Visiting Scholar with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and is a Senior Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale. He is currently Assistant Regional Director of the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific Division.Dr Sanyal's primary interests are in political economy and Marxist philosophy. He has published in forums such as Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics, Philosophy Compass, and Social Scientist. He co-edited The Ethics of Human Enhancement, (OUP, 2016).

In this edited volume, contributors delve into the various ways that the use of military intervention to address humanitarian crises is flawed and even harmful. Several chapters focus on abuse of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm by states pursuing self-interest. Each contributes to the discussion supporting theoretical and philosophical arguments with references to case studies, which collectively make a cohesive manuscript. The strength of the volume in its entirety is twofold. First, the argument that the use of military intervention can do more harm than good is well-supported. The second strength is perhaps the more valuable: chapters that provide alternatives to military intervention that may better address the types of atrocities that motivated the creation of the R2P norm.

• C. A. J. Coady: Morality, Reality and Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction to the Debate 1: Stephen Zunes: Complicating the Moral Case of Responsibility to Protect: Kosovo and Libya 2: Richard W. Miller: Why Sovereignty Matters Despite Injustice: the Ethics of Intervention 3: Janna Thompson: Women and Humanitarian Intervention 4: Ramon Das: Humanitarian Intervention and Non-Ideal Theory 5: Marco Meyer: The Leeriness Objection to the Responsibility to Protect 6: Ned Dobos: On the Uses and "Abuses" of R2P 7: Chrisantha Hermanson: Scrutinizing Intentions 8: Aidan Hehir: "Words lying on the table"? Norm Contestation and the Diminution of the Responsibility to Protect 9: Robert W. Murray and Tom Keating: Responsibility to Protect, Polarity and Society: R2P's Political Realities in the International Order 10: Sagar Sanyal: Closing the R2P Chapter; Opening a Dissident Current within Philosophy of War

C. A. J. Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University. His books include the influential Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992) and the widely cited Morality and Political Violence (2008). In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, subsequently published as Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics (2008).Dr. Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The New Pacifism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Dobos was a Visiting Scholar with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and is a Senior Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale. He is currently Assistant Regional Director of the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific Division.Dr Sanyal's primary interests are in political economy and Marxist philosophy. He has published in forums such as Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics, Philosophy Compass, and Social Scientist. He co-edited The Ethics of Human Enhancement, (OUP, 2016).

In this edited volume, contributors delve into the various ways that the use of military intervention to address humanitarian crises is flawed and even harmful. Several chapters focus on abuse of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm by states pursuing self-interest. Each contributes to the discussion supporting theoretical and philosophical arguments with references to case studies, which collectively make a cohesive manuscript. The strength of the volume in its entirety is twofold. First, the argument that the use of military intervention can do more harm than good is well-supported. The second strength is perhaps the more valuable: chapters that provide alternatives to military intervention that may better address the types of atrocities that motivated the creation of the R2P norm.

• C. A. J. Coady: Morality, Reality and Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction to the Debate 1: Stephen Zunes: Complicating the Moral Case of Responsibility to Protect: Kosovo and Libya 2: Richard W. Miller: Why Sovereignty Matters Despite Injustice: the Ethics of Intervention 3: Janna Thompson: Women and Humanitarian Intervention 4: Ramon Das: Humanitarian Intervention and Non-Ideal Theory 5: Marco Meyer: The Leeriness Objection to the Responsibility to Protect 6: Ned Dobos: On the Uses and "Abuses" of R2P 7: Chrisantha Hermanson: Scrutinizing Intentions 8: Aidan Hehir: "Words lying on the table"? Norm Contestation and the Diminution of the Responsibility to Protect 9: Robert W. Murray and Tom Keating: Responsibility to Protect, Polarity and Society: R2P's Political Realities in the International Order 10: Sagar Sanyal: Closing the R2P Chapter; Opening a Dissident Current within Philosophy of War

C. A. J. Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University. His books include the influential Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992) and the widely cited Morality and Political Violence (2008). In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, subsequently published as Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics (2008).Dr. Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The New Pacifism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Dobos was a Visiting Scholar with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and is a Senior Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale. He is currently Assistant Regional Director of the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific Division.Dr Sanyal's primary interests are in political economy and Marxist philosophy. He has published in forums such as Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics, Philosophy Compass, and Social Scientist. He co-edited The Ethics of Human Enhancement, (OUP, 2016).

In this edited volume, contributors delve into the various ways that the use of military intervention to address humanitarian crises is flawed and even harmful. Several chapters focus on abuse of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm by states pursuing self-interest. Each contributes to the discussion supporting theoretical and philosophical arguments with references to case studies, which collectively make a cohesive manuscript. The strength of the volume in its entirety is twofold. First, the argument that the use of military intervention can do more harm than good is well-supported. The second strength is perhaps the more valuable: chapters that provide alternatives to military intervention that may better address the types of atrocities that motivated the creation of the R2P norm.

• C. A. J. Coady: Morality, Reality and Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction to the Debate 1: Stephen Zunes: Complicating the Moral Case of Responsibility to Protect: Kosovo and Libya 2: Richard W. Miller: Why Sovereignty Matters Despite Injustice: the Ethics of Intervention 3: Janna Thompson: Women and Humanitarian Intervention 4: Ramon Das: Humanitarian Intervention and Non-Ideal Theory 5: Marco Meyer: The Leeriness Objection to the Responsibility to Protect 6: Ned Dobos: On the Uses and "Abuses" of R2P 7: Chrisantha Hermanson: Scrutinizing Intentions 8: Aidan Hehir: "Words lying on the table"? Norm Contestation and the Diminution of the Responsibility to Protect 9: Robert W. Murray and Tom Keating: Responsibility to Protect, Polarity and Society: R2P's Political Realities in the International Order 10: Sagar Sanyal: Closing the R2P Chapter; Opening a Dissident Current within Philosophy of War