THOMAS G. WEISS is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He has published over forty books including Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey and UN Ideas that Changed the World.

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• About the AuthorForeword to the Second Edition by Gareth EvansPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Conceptual Building Blocks2 "Humanitarian" Interventions: Thumbnail Sketches3 New Wars and New Humanitarianisms4 New Thinking: The Responsibility to Protect5 So What? Moving from Rhetoric to RealityNotesSelected ReadingsIndex

THOMAS G. WEISS is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He has published over forty books including Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey and UN Ideas that Changed the World.

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• About the AuthorForeword to the Second Edition by Gareth EvansPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Conceptual Building Blocks2 "Humanitarian" Interventions: Thumbnail Sketches3 New Wars and New Humanitarianisms4 New Thinking: The Responsibility to Protect5 So What? Moving from Rhetoric to RealityNotesSelected ReadingsIndex

THOMAS G. WEISS is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He has published over forty books including Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey and UN Ideas that Changed the World.

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• About the AuthorForeword to the Second Edition by Gareth EvansPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Conceptual Building Blocks2 "Humanitarian" Interventions: Thumbnail Sketches3 New Wars and New Humanitarianisms4 New Thinking: The Responsibility to Protect5 So What? Moving from Rhetoric to RealityNotesSelected ReadingsIndex