Ethics & International Affairs articles from October 2004

Ethics & International Affairs archives from October 2004

Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration.
October 1, 2004... The basic idea of humanitarian assistance--delivering medicine, food, and other supplies to relieve suffering and save lives--appears to be a simple one. Yet, there is a serious debate between different humanitarian organizations, official...

Humanitarianism sacrificed: integration's false promise.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
October 1, 2004... In recent years, there have been concerted efforts to ensure that the different components of the international response to crisis-affected countries, whether conducted under the banner of the United Nations or not, are integrated in pursuit of...

Upholding humanitarian principles in an effective integrated response.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
October 1, 2004... The integration of political, military and humanitarian action in responding to complex emergencies offers a compelling promise of resolving long-term problems and thereby providing peace and stability to an entire population. Significant...

An elusive quest: integration in the response to the Afghan crisis.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
October 1, 2004... The UN humanitarian response in Afghanistan spans fifteen years during which humanitarianism has waxed and waned. A retrospective look at this period provides insights on an interesting range of approaches and respect/disrespect for basic...

Understanding integration from Rwanda to Iraq.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
October 1, 2004... The past decade has seen profound changes in the relationship between humanitarian and political action. The political determinants of humanitarian crises are now acknowledged, so too is their chronicity, and the limits of relief aid as a form...

The value of integration: a U.S. perspective.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
October 1, 2004... The integration of humanitarian action into intervention operations, and particularly the inclusion of a military component, carries risks--but none so great as to be worth sacrificing integration on the altar of humanitarian purity. As in the...

Improving the U.S. government's humanitarian response.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
October 1, 2004... The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) was created in 1964 to provide emergency nonfood humanitarian assistance in response to international crises and disasters, in order to save lives and alleviate human suffering and to reduce...

Informing the integration debate with recent experience.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
October 1, 2004... The overriding challenge faced by policy-makers in the post-Cold War era is not, as many would have us believe, the achievement of integration of humanitarian action into the prevailing politico-military context. It is rather the protection of...

International Financial Institutions and financial accountability.
October 1, 2004... Calls for the reform of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have become both increasingly common and more emphatic. The former International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive director Ariel Buira, for example, concluded that important...

Models of international economic justice.
October 1, 2004... A host of activists, policy-makers, and scholars have been asserting that today's international economic structure and its associated outcomes are fundamentally unfair or unjust to many people, especially the poor or least advantaged, and also...

The ghosts of totalitarianism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Tzvetan Todorov, trans. David Bellos (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 376 pp., $29.95 cloth. Tzvetan Todorov's book, originally published in 2000 in French and now...

Ethics and Foreign Intervention.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Ethics and Foreign Intervention, Deen K. Chatterjee and Don E. Scheid, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 316 pp., $58 cloth, $20.99 paper. Through the 1990s and into this decade, humanitarian intervention, the subject of...

Between Anarchy and Society: Trusteeship and the Obligations of Power.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Between Anarchy and Society: Trusteeship and the Obligations of Power, William Bain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 224 pp., $72.00 cloth. Trusteeship is alive and well, according to a new book by William Bain. When UN bureaucrats...

The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders, Richard Ned Lebow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 424 pp., $75.00 cloth, $26.99 paper. In the short story that opens Richard Ned Lebow's stimulating, sobering, and...

Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz, Campbell Craig (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 216 pp., $34.50 cloth. The central premise of Campbell Craig's book Glimmer of a New...

After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, Eva Hoffman (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 320 pp., $25 cloth. The Holocaust has become the paradigmatic case for discussions of ethical approaches to memory,...

Peace Pact: the Lost World of the American Founding.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding, David C. Hendrickson (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003), 376 pp., $29.95 cloth. Farrand, Beard, Wood--the list of interpreters of the early events deciding "the fate of an...

Affirmative Action Around the World: an Empirical Study.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study, Thomas Sowell (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 256 pp., $28 cloth. Thomas Sowell's new book, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study, "addresses," the author...

Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America, Nils Gilman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 329 pp., $48 cloth. Intellectual fashions come and go, and this well-researched book artfully analyzes the...