Alex Bellamy

Peace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. Meer

Past, ongoing, and impending humanitarian crises-including those in Rwanda, Kosovo, Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria-mean that dizzyingly difficult questions around the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention (and the so-called `Responsibility to Protect') have, alas, never been more topical. Meer

Contrary to the optimistic predictions at the turn of the last century about ‘the demise of major war’, the War on Terror, major civil wars in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, and the continuing conflict in the Middle East suggest that the study of warfare has never been so urgent. Meer