security, human rights and democracy. While international legal texts still invoke
interdependence as a fact and the coming community of shared values as a destination,interdependence post-September 11 is more likely to be figured in terms of a shared vulnerability and the coming community in terms of the fragility of faith and belief.
In this context, the idea that military intervention might be a means of responding to
the suffering of others has not disappeared, but it has shifted form, as we shall see. In order [ 0 cry to think about the stakes of different approaches to the question of 'What
can we do to stop people harming others?' I turn to look: at an example humanitarian
intervention in action - the case of Timor-Leste.