POLS 5960 Humanitarian Aid and Intervention

4 semester hours

This seminar introduces students to theoretical and practical issues concerning humanitarian intervention, including the concept and history of intervention, its political and moral dilemmas, and ways forward. It examines challenges stemming from great power politics, tensions between sovereignty and responsibility, political dimensions of humanitarian aid, the growth of “war economies,” and controversies surrounding the meaning, legality, and implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

Prerequisite: POLS 1600 .