Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century.

INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A NEW REALISM, CHAPTER 1: HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND LEGITIMACY WARS, PART I: LAW, POLITICS AND MORALITY, CHAPTER 2: SOVEREIGNITY REVISITED, CHAPTER 3: THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND THE GOLDSTONE RETREAT, CHAPTER 4: TOWARD A JURISPRUDENCE OF CONSCIENCE, CHAPTER 5: ON HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: A WORLD ORDER DILEMMA, CHAPTER 6: CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES ON HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION, PART II: TRIAL AND ERROR, CHAPTER 7: THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR, CHAPTER 8: THE TET OFFENSIVE IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR OF THE AFGHANISTAN WAR: WHEN `DEFEAT¿ IS `VICTORY¿, CHAPTER 9: RETHINKING THE AFGHAN INTERVENTION, CHAPTER 10: WILL WE EVER LEARN? KICKING THE INTERVENTION HABIT, CHAPTER 11: VIOLENTLY OBSTRUCTING FREEDOM FLOTILLA II, CHAPTER 12: THE KOSOVO ADVISORY OPINION: CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PRECEDENT, CHAPTER 13: WHY INTERNATIONAL LAW MATTERS IN THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE, PART III: SOVEREIGNITY, SELF-DETERMINATION, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT, CHAPTER 14: DILEMMAS OF SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERVENTION, CHAPTER 15: WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT SYRIA? TRAGEDY AND IMPOTENCE, CHAPTER 16: ON SYRIA: WHAT TO DO IN 2013, CHAPTER 17: INTERVENTIONARY MOTIVES, NSA THE SNOWDEN AFFAIR, PART IV: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, CHAPTER 18: TOWARD A GLOBAL IMAGINARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, CHAPTER 19: NONVIOLENT GEOPOLITICS: RATIONALITY AND RESISTANCE, CHAPTER 20: DECLINING MILITARISM AND RISING PROSPECTS FOR SOFT POWER GEOPOLITICS, CHAPTER 21: GLOBALIZATION-FROM-BELOW: AN INNOVATIVE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE, CHAPTER 22: THE LEGITIMACY WAR TEMPLATE: PALESTINE AND BDS, CHAPTER 23: APPROPRIATING NORMATIVE GEOPOLITICS: CIVIL SOCIETY & INTERNATIONAL LAW