France, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect

Since the end of the Cold War, the protection of human life has been a key priority of the international community. Though France has been at the forefront of these humanitarian efforts – steering debates at the United Nations and standing in opposition to wars and conflicts worldwide – its role has been overlooked and its international role in and long-standing commitment to human protection underestimated. Eglantine Staunton offers a compelling corrective to the prevailing assumptions about Fr