Aidan Hehir

I joined the University of Westminster in 2007, and currently I am a Reader in International Relations. I previously worked at the University of Sheffield and gained my PhD in 2005 from the University of Limerick. My research interests include humanitarian intervention, statebuilding and transitional justice. I am co-editor of the Routledge book series "Studies on Intervention and Statebuilding"

In addition to media commentaries and book chapters, I have published widely in a number of academic journals, including International Security, The Journal of Peace Research, Ethics and International Affairs, and Cooperation and Conflict. I am author/editor of the following books; Kosovo and Transitional Justice (Routledge, 2021. Co-editor); The Responsibility to Protect and Hollow Norms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Protecting Human Rights in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2017. Co-editor); Libya, The Responsibility to Protect, and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Co-editor); Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction 2nd Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); The Responsibility to Protect: Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); International Law, Security and Ethics (Routledge, 2010 & 2014. Co-editor); Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding (Routledge, 2010. Editor); Humanitarian Intervention after Kosovo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Statebuilding: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2007 & 2009. Co-editor).