This new paperback edition of Justifying Interventions in Africa includes a new preface written by Professor Annika Bj rkdahl from Lund University. Analysing the UN interventions in Liberia, Burundi and the Congo, Wil n poses the question of how one can stabilize a state through external intervention without destabilizing sovereignty. She critically examines the justifications for international and regional interventions through a social constructivist...