Contemporary States of Emergency
The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (Zone, 2013), edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the Social Sciences, examines historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions common today. The work addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, describing both differences and similarities, and examines the moral and political consequences of these generalized states of emergency and the new form of government associated with them.