Dilemmas of humanitarian aid in the twentieth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9906071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bogdan C Iacob (0000-0003-0735-6272, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 193-194 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iix252 |
| OpenAlex | W2782111839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
Dilemmas of humanitarian aid in the twentieth century is a comprehensive historical account of humanitarianism from the mid-nineteenth century to the 2000s. It situates developments in international aid, assistance and relief in various parts of the world within larger, enduring themes. As the editor, Johannes Paulmann, underlines, ‘some of the dilemmas of modern humanitarianism have been inherent in humanitarian practice for more than a century’ (p. 3). The contributors to the volume focus on interconnected turning-points in the history of humanitarianism. Matthias Schulz and Daniel Maul detail the beginnings of aid internationalism, focusing on the ICRC and the American Friends Service Committee, from the late nineteenth century to the first two decades of the twentieth. They argue that the emergent humanitarianism ‘undermined the sole authority of the state in international relations’ (p. 61). Nevertheless, as Alain Guilloux remarks, these new forms of assistance were ‘integrated with military health services and firmly entrenched in nationalistic values’ (p. 401)
Economic history · Humanitarian aid · Internationalism (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law
Exploring, Overreaching, Giving Up
Introduction
Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945
Japan and the international humanitarian system
A woman’s grace
Afterword
Neutrality in foreign aid
Rethinking affects of care through power
Work in crisis
Strategies and Mechanisms of Scholar Rescue
Manufacturing Sovereignty and Manipulating Humanitarianism
Hidden in plain sight
Japan and the international humanitarian system
The role of experience and the place of history in the writings of ICRC presidents
The International Review of the Red Cross and the protection of civilians, c. 1919–1939
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan
Paving the road to reconciliation
Rocking the boat
Aidland in South Asia
International development contested
Women in child search
Voluntary organizations, the Red Cross and the features of humanitarian reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars
The road to recovery
Fighters without guns’
Building ‘healthy happy family units’
Bordering and Repatriation
Unparalleled Opportunities’
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |