Question of intervention, the

The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country?s affairs is one of the most important concerns in today?s volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill?s famous 1859 essay ?A Few Words on Non-Intervention? as his starting point, international relations scholar Michael W. Doyle addresses the thorny issue of when a state?s sovereignty should be respected and when it should be overridden or disregarded by other states in the name of humanitarian protection, national self-determination, or national security. In this time of complex social and political interplay and increasingly sophisticated and deadly weaponry, Doyle reinvigorates Mill?s principles for a new era while assessing the new United Nations doctrine of responsibility to protect.   In the twenty-first century, intervention can take many forms: military and economic, unilateral and multilateral. Doyle?s thought-provoking argument examines essential moral and legal questions underlying significant American foreign policy dilemmas of recent years, including Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.