RA Dr. Mark Swatek

“Co-national intervention” in Ukraine.

“Co-national intervention” in Ukraine.

On March 29, 2022, I participated in an online round table discussion on "Humanitarian Intervention, foreign fighters and war refugees: Old questions - new answers" as part of King's College's War Crimes Research Group Seminar, at the invitation of Maria Varaki. I...

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Paperback writer.

Paperback writer.

"Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?" Well, it's taken years and then it's also taken me some months to update this page with the information that CUP has now also published a paperback version, meaning the price...

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Reviewed again.

Reviewed again.

The "Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht" (now going by the slightly less clunky international title "Heidelberg Journal of International Law") is, according to its (English) Wikipedia page, regarded as "one of the world's leading"...

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“Rewriting” a history.

“Rewriting” a history.

Before the "new" book came out last year, the German version was already acknowledged as having made some, well, at least one, valid point. This is from a volume edited by Norbert Frei, Daniel Stahl and Annette Weinke, "Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention"...

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The history of a typo.

The history of a typo.

Humanitarian Intervention, as an identifiable individual subject of research has drawn an impressive amount of interdisciplinary attention in the last two decades. Having published the German version of my book in 2008 to positive reviews, I was obviously hoping it...

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The history before the “History”.

The history before the “History”.

Before there was "A History of Humanitarian Intervention", there was "Geschichte der "Humanitären Intervention"", my dissertation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, 2008. The book was well received in Germany, with a review by Alexandra Kemmerer...

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Publication day 2.0.

Publication day 2.0.

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...

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