From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond - New Edition

by David Chandler (University of Westminster)

"David Chandler has managed to make a blow-by-blow criticism of humanitarian intervention. He says that defending the human rights of others can be a way of masquerading in the language of altruism to advance a particular agenda or to question the legitimacy of other governments. It can give a ready means to attack other states and to promote the moral authority of your own government."