Ricerc@Sapienza

One of the most characterizing aspects of the “new” political and legal landscape born from
the so called “1989 divide” is the emergence of a form of international political morality based
on universal principles that challenge the presumed moral supremacy of territorial
boundaries and which favour instead the welfare of humanity generally. Moving from recent
theory and practice of “humanitarian interventionism”, this essay aims at discussing some of
the main conceptions of “global humanitarian space” elaborated in contemporary debate on
the new political and legal order of the “global age”.