Humanitarian intervention” sells itself as a moral shortcut: bypass the messy politics, send in the troops, stop the monster.

A humanitarian mission in Ukraine? What a great idea. Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations recently drafted, circulated, then abruptly pulled a draft resolution calling for humanitarian ...

As David Rieff wrote in the New York Times as the Libyan intervention drew to a close in late 2011: A straight line runs between such unreconstructed liberal interventionists as Samantha Power and ...

A new study demonstrates that an eight-week humanitarian intervention can improve the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of Syrian refugee and Jordanian youth affected by Syria’s war. The study, ...

Humanitarian intervention is intervention forced upon a sovereign state. It is either arbitrarily undertaken by one state or collectively by a group of states (at times under the platform of an ...

The purpose of President Trump’s airstrikes on a Syrian government airfield was, according to Trump, to secure the national security interests of the U.S. “and deter the spread and use of deadly ...

The international community currently faces a global refugee crisis and mass atrocities in Iraq, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen, and beyond. How should the West respond? Proponents of humanitarian intervention ...

When I heard that American planes were in the air, I felt joy. At last we were coming to the rescue of men, women, and children who were, absent us, doomed. Rescue is not a burden, it is an honor.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Americans have spent much time in the last ten years arguing whether to intervene in places like Kosovo, Rwanda, and East Timor—and there will almost certainly be no policy consensus in future ...

Civil wars rage in Congo, Somalia and Sudan. Thousands of civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands more driven from their homes. The prime minister of Kenya just called for foreign troops ...