Acknowledgements Introduction: The Rules of the Game Conditional Sovereignty: Changes in and Fragmentation of State Sovereignty The Non-Intervention Norm and Intervention Practice in the 1990s The Changing Intervention Norm: The Realpolitik of Human Rights Legitimacy in Europe: Multilateral and UN-Based Legitimacy in the USA: National Interests and Values Differing Legitimacy: United over Kosovo and Afghanistan, Divided over Iraq 'Failed' States and Terrorism: The Good Meets the Expedient? 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Assessment of Normative Change Intervention for 'Regime Change': Assessment of Normative Change Conclusions Bibliography Index