Author profile: David Chandler

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, London. He edits the open access journal Anthropocenes: Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. His recent mongraphs include Race in the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon (with Farai Chipato, 2024); The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (with Jonathan Pugh, 2023); Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (with Jonathan Pugh, 2021); Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (with Julian Reid, 2019); and Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (2018).

 

Why the Bombing of Libya cannot Herald a Return to the 1990s Era of Humanitarian Intervention

David Chandler • Apr 4 2011 • Articles

Many international relations commentators are heralding the Western bombing of Libya as marking a return to the 1990s era of humanitarian intervention. The debate is largely over whether this return is to be welcomed or regretted. But a return of the moral or ethical understandings of the humanitarian interventionist 1990s is not a possibility.

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