The responsibility to protect and its limits: Transnational intervention in The Honourable Woman.

This article examines the concept of the "responsibility to protect" (R2P) and its ethical and political complexities through the lens of the British miniseries *The Honourable Woman* (2014). The series centers on Nessa Stein, a CEO who transforms her family's arms business into a corporation aimed at humanitarian intervention in the Middle East, highlighting tensions between interventionism, corporate capitalism, and neo-colonialism. The narrative explores how humanitarian efforts can be co-opted by political and economic interests, reflecting widespread public distrust of foreign interventions post-September 11, 2001, and the blurred lines between genuine protection and imperialistic agendas. Ultimately, the series portrays the limits and risks of R2P, emphasizing that transnational corporations and states often intertwine humanitarian rhetoric with profit motives and geopolitical control, fostering conspiracy and paranoia about global interventionism.