Humanitarianism contested : where angels fear to tread / Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss.
This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case stu...
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] :
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| Series: | Global institutions series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Humanitarianism: the essentials
- "Birth" and maturation, 1864-1945
- The traditional enterprise, 1945-89
- The turburlent post-Cold War era: the "new" humanitarianism?
- Turbulet humanitarianism since 1989: rhetroic meets reality
- Humanitarianism's past and possible futures: ten guiding questions.