Audra Mitchell is a lecturer in the Politics department at the University of York, UK

This book explores the Western secular beliefs that underpin contemporary practices of intervention - most importantly, beliefs about life, death and the primacy of humanity.

Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Beyond Belief - Telling a New Story About Secularity in IR, Chapter 3: A Matter of Life and Death, Chapter 4: Is Nothing Sacred? Disenchantment and Dehumanization, Chapter 5: Re-enchanting Humanity? Disenchantment, Re-enchantment and Intervention, Chapter 6: Angels of Death: Logics of Killing and Letting Die in Military Intervention, Chapter 7: Life After Death: Intervention, Immortality and Rituals of Re-enchantment, Chapter 8: Conclusions