On January 27, 2020, I received the first copies of my book with CUP, “A History of Humanitarian Intervention”.
A year later, the first review has appeared. Writing in the Liverpool Law Review, Gary Wilson says the book “adds a new dimension to” the voluminous literature on humanitarian intervention “through the novel focus it adopts”. It’s a little bit surprising to see something you first did 10 years ago be described as “novel”, but as long as his conclusion is that my work provides “fresh, challenging insights for any student of humanitarian intervention specifically, but international law more generally,” I’m okay with that. The subject matter doesn’t seem to get old, not on this day, not on any other, unfortunately.
On these pages, I will try to continue to engage with the theme of the book, a theme that has occupied my mind for at least three decades.