Costa Rica abolished its military 75 years ago, choosing to invest in human development and to build a culture of peace instead. Whether or not other states decide to follow, Dobos shows us exactly what is at stake in this important decision. His book deserves to be carefully studied in every corner of the world.
Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty (Cambridge 2012) and co-editor of Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (Oxford 2018).