title: Introduction
abstract: Any book about the concept of sovereignty and its relation to principles of responsibility and humanitarian intervention is bound to run headlong into real-life crisis situations. At the time of writing, there are multiple such crises taking place across the world, foremost among them being the ongoing domestic and potentially international conflict in Ukraine. There, the months of protest that led to the toppling of President Viktor Yushenko only spurred a new and more dangerous crisis as the C
journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks