Human rights, intervention and the use of force / edited by Philip Alston and Euan Macdonald.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sovereignty, human rights, security : armed intervention and the foundational problems of international law / Euan MacDonald and Philip Alston -- Human rights and state sovereignty : have the boundaries been significantly been redrawn? / Hélène Ruiz Fabri -- Human rights and collective security : is there an emerging right of humanitarian intervention? / Olivier Corten -- The implications of Kosovo for international human rights law / Richard B. Builder -- Legality verses [sic] legitimacy : can use of force be illegal but justified? / Anthea Roberts -- Intervention in a "divided world" : axes of legitimacy / Nathaniel Berman -- States of exception : regulated targeted killing in a "global civil war" / Nehal Bhuta -- The schizophrenias of R2P / José E. Alvarez.