Humanitarian Politics

Author : Antonio de Lauri
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1780768303

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The Politics of Humanitarianism by Antonio de Lauri Pdf

Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success concerns have been raised that humanitarianism has increasingly become an economic enterprise and a political tool for controlling territories and governing international relations. In The Politics of Humanitarianism authors from a variety of disciplines provide a comprehensive critique of the humanitarian enterprise. How are those on the end of humanitarian action influenced by different epistemologies and applications of international law? What is the complex relationship between values - what humanitarian action is intended to be - and practice - what happens on the ground? Combining international case studies with critical theoretical evaluations, and including chapters on international aid, refugees, childhood and women's rights, The Politics of Humanitarianism offers a timely and critical analysis of the contemporary humanitarian system.

Author : Adèle Garnier,Liliana Lyra Jubilut,Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785339443

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Refugee Resettlement by Adèle Garnier,Liliana Lyra Jubilut,Kristin Bergtora Sandvik Pdf

Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees’ needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understanding of resettlement, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.

Author : Mika Aaltola
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124112462

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Western Spectacle of Governance and the Emergence of Humanitarian World Politics by Mika Aaltola Pdf

Humanitarianism has arguably become the key frame through which multifarious actors of world evaluate each other legitimacy and determinate their roles in the current world. Moreover, this new "humanitarian paradigm" has become an essential expression of what is meant by international community and contemporary world order behind it. The book examines the patterns of co-option and collaboration between the ethical and political traditions of the humanitarianism in various world political spectacles: September 11th, Iraq and Afganistan, Darfur, SARS and Avian Flu, and U.S. transformational HIV/AIDS diplomacy.

Author : Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801465086

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Humanitarianism in Question by Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of the last century, the principles of humanitarianism were guided by neutrality, impartiality, and independence. More recently, some humanitarian organizations have begun to relax these tenets. The recognition that humanitarian action can lead to negative consequences has forced humanitarian organizations to measure their effectiveness, to reflect on their ethical positions, and to consider not only the values that motivate their actions but also the consequences of those actions. In the indispensable Humanitarianism in Question, Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies.

Author : Larry Minear,Thomas George Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034015381

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Humanitarian Politics by Larry Minear,Thomas George Weiss Pdf

Author : Katja Lindskov Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317692980

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The Politics of Humanitarian Technology by Katja Lindskov Jacobsen Pdf

This book offers a detailed exploration of three examples of humanitarian uses of new technology, employing key theoretical insights from Foucault. We are currently seeing a humanitarian turn to new digital technologies, such as biometrics, remote sensing, and surveillance drones. However, such humanitarian uses of new technology have not always produced beneficial results for those at the receiving end and have sometimes exposed the subjects of assistance to additional risks and insecurities. Engaging with key insights from the work of Foucault combined with selected concepts from the Science and Technology Studies literature, this book produces an analytical framework that opens up the analysis to details of power and control at the level of materiality that are often ignored in liberal histories of war and modernity. Whereas Foucault details the design of prisons, factories, schools, etc., this book is original in its use of his work, in that it uses these key insights about the details of power embedded in material design, but shifts the attention to the technologies and attending forms of power that have been experimented with in the three humanitarian endeavours presented in the book. In doing so, the book provides new information about aspects of liberal humanitarianism that contemporary critical analyses have largely neglected. This book will be of interest to students of humanitarian studies, peace and conflict studies, critical security studies, and IR in general.

Author : Michele Acuto
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849042381

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Negotiating Relief by Michele Acuto Pdf

While humanitarianism is unquestionably a fast-growing subject of practitioner and scholarly engagement, much discussion about it is predicated on a dangerous dichotomy between 'aid givers' and 'relief takers' that largely misrepresents the negotiated nature of the humanitarian enterprise. To highlight the tension between these relationships, this book focuses on the 'humanitarian spaces' and the dynamics of 'humanitarian diplomacy' (both 'local' and 'global') that sustain them. It gathers key voices to provide a critical analysis of international theory, geopolitics and dilemmas underpinning the negotiation of relief. Offering up-to-date examples from cases such as Kosovo and the Tsunami, or ongoing crises like Haiti, Libya, Darfur and Somalia, the contributors analyse the complexity of humanitarian diplomacy and the multiplicity of geographies and actors involved in it. By investigating the transformations that both diplomacy and humanitarianism are undergoing, the authors prompt us towards a critical and eclectic understanding of the dialectics of humanitarian space. Negotiating Relief aims to present humanitarianism not only as a relief delivery mechanism but also as a phenomenon in dialogue with both localised crises and global politics.--

Author : Hikaru Yamashita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351929479

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Humanitarian Space and International Politics by Hikaru Yamashita Pdf

The creation of safe areas poses a number of difficult challenges to the spatial and normative organization of contemporary international politics. As a result, academics, practitioners and NGOs alike will find the case studies in this informative book essential reading. Hikaru Yamashita firstly looks at the case of northern Iraq after the first Iraqi war, where safe areas represented a major departure from the conventional notion. The different understandings of the Srebrenica safe areas, especially with regard to the role of security, are also assessed to ascertain how they eventually destroyed this humanitarian space. A much-needed account of the extent to which humanitarian space, intended as shelter in response to Rwandan genocide, consequently destabilized the area and provided cover for the genocideurs is additionally provided. This well-researched book, through the prism of safe areas, allows a measured assessment to be made of the place of human rights and humanitarianism in the contemporary world.

Author : Eric A. Belgrad,Nitza Nachmias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313389177

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The Politics of International Humanitarian Aid Operations by Eric A. Belgrad,Nitza Nachmias Pdf

The theories and case studies examined in this volume constitute a thorough study of foreign intervention in civil conflicts for the purpose of rendering humanitarian aid. The classical paradigm of the ethics of intervention forbids the violation of territorial sovereignty. Public international law and the UN charter also mandate nonintervention within the territorial boundaries of a state. Nevertheless, in recent years, as a result of brutal civil conflicts and their violent and inhumane consequences—as in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia—international aid interventions have become an accepted practice. Still, international humanitarian aid involves unsettled, controversial issues—dilemmas concerning donors, recipients, and international organizations. These issues, as well as the concepts of sovereignty, human rights, coercive interventions, and peacekeeping, are critically evaluated in this volume, which will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in international relations, human rights, and military affairs.

Author : Elizabeth G. Ferris
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815721383

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The Politics of Protection by Elizabeth G. Ferris Pdf

For the past decade, humanitarian actors have increasingly sought not only to assist people affected by conflicts and natural disasters, but also to protect them. At the same time, protection of civilians has become central to UN peacekeeping operations, and the UN General Assembly has endorsed the principle that the international community has the "responsibility to protect" people when their governments cannot or will not do so. Elizabeth Ferris explores the evolution of the international community's understandings of protection, with a particular emphasis on the humanitarian community. "Protection" is a noble word, with positive connotations, but what does it actually mean in practice? Does providing assistance to vulnerable people protect them, for example? Does monitoring the number of rapes protect women? Does increased engagement in protection activities by humanitarian agencies jeopardize the cornerstone humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality? In The Politics of Protection, Ferris examines inconsistent ways in which protection is defined and applied. For example, why do certain groups receive international protection while other equally needy groups do not? Her case studies, ranging from Iraq to Katrina, illustrate the challenges—and limitations—of protecting vulnerable populations from the ravages of war and natural disasters. Ferris argues that the protection paradigms currently in use are inadequate to meet the challenges of the future, such as climate change, protracted displacement, and the changing nature of warfare.

Author : Didier Fassin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520271166

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Humanitarian Reason by Didier Fassin Pdf

Studies primarily France with shorter sections on South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine.

Author : Martin Binder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319423548

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The United Nations and the Politics of Selective Humanitarian Intervention by Martin Binder Pdf

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. Over the past 20 years the United Nations has imposed economic sanctions, deployed peacekeeping operations, and even conducted or authorized military intervention in Somalia, Bosnia, or Libya. Yet no such measures were taken in other similar cases such as Colombia, Myanmar, Darfur—or more recently—Syria. What factors account for the UN’s selective response to humanitarian crises and what are the mechanism that drive—or block—UN intervention decisions? By combining fuzzy-set analysis of the UN’s response to more than 30 humanitarian crises with in depth-case study analysis of UN (in)action in Bosnia and Darfur, as well as in the most recent crises in Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and Syria, this volume seeks to answer these questions.

Author : J. L. Holzgrefe,Robert O. Keohane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 052152928X

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Humanitarian Intervention by J. L. Holzgrefe,Robert O. Keohane Pdf

An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics.

Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781852088

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The Politics Of Humanity by John Holmes Pdf

John Holmes was the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs from 2007 until 2010. His work took him to some of the most troubled areas of the world: to Sri Lanka, Darfur, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among other places, and exposed him to the harsh realities of humanitarian aid. Frequently he found that the UN's humanitarian programmes in these hotspots were tolerated but consistently undermined and mistrusted by both sides in any conflict, and its efforts to protect civilians and provide humanitarian relief frustrated by people working for purely political ends. Clear-eyed about the realities of development aid, Holmes realised early on that his role was to be a voice to the voiceless. THE POLITICS OF HUMANITY exposes, in often depressing detail, how difficult this job is, as well as analysing and exploring in great depth the wider policy questions of his role.

Author : Jennifer C. Rubenstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199684106

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Between Samaritans and States by Jennifer C. Rubenstein Pdf

Examining the difficult ethical quandaries faced by humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGOs), this book explains why INGOs occupy a middle ground between the individual good Samaritan and full-fledged conventional governments.