Eyal Weizman is the author of the critically acclaimed Hollow Land, which explores the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation. Following on from this, Weizman pursues the problem of the lesser evil – the moderation and minimisation of violence as a mechanism of government and control. The Least of All Possible Evils investigates its political consequences and traces its intellectual genealogy from classical ethics and Christian theology, through the political theory of Hannah Arendt to contemporary debates on humanitarianism.