The State Versus the Individual: The Unresolved Dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention

The question of humanitarian intervention s legality remains unanswered to date. This book offers a new approach to the legality issue by combining legal theory and international law. With humanitarian intervention, hard choices still have to be made by the international lawgiver.

Katariina Simonen (1970), LL.D. in International Law, University of Turku, is a Senior Adviser at the Finnish Ministry of Defence. She has published studies on humanitarian intervention, including the awarded ＂Operation Allied Force: A Case of Humanitarian Intervention?＂(NATO PfP Council, 2005).