240116 SE VM5 / VM1 - The International History and Politics of Humanitarianism (2023W)

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Keith David Watenpaugh, “The League of Nations’ Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920-1927,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 115, No.5 (December 2010), 1315-1339.
Elisabeth Piller, “American War Relief, Cultural Mobilization, and the Myth of Impartial Humanitarianism,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 17, Issue 4 (October 2018), 619-635.
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Cristian Capotescu, Migrants into Humanitarians: Ethnic Solidarity and Private Aid-Giving during Romania’s Historic Flood of 1970,” East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, Vol. 35, Issue 2 (2020), 293-312.
Scott Flipse, “The Latest Casualty of War: Catholic Relief Services, Humanitarianism, and the War in Vietnam, 1967-1968,” Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 27, Issue 2 (April 2002), 245-270.
Agnieszka Sobocinska, “‘Springs of Love:’ Sentiment and affect in mid-twentieth century development volunteering,” in Joy Damousi, Trevor Burnard, and Alan Lester eds., Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995 (Manchester, UK, Manchester University Press, 2022), 264-282.
Kevin O’Sullivan, “Humanitarian Encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 16, Issue 2-3 (2014), 299-315.
Stephen Wertheim, “A solution from hell: The United States and the rise of humanitarian interventionism, 1991-2003,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 12, Issue 3-4 (2010), 149-172.
Beat Schweizer, “Moral dilemmas for humanitarianism in the era of “humanitarian” military interventions,” IRRC, Vol. 86, No. 855 (2004), 547-564.
Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, 9 September 2019. Access at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention
Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain and Andrew Thomson, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A true story from Hell on Earth (New York: Hyperion, 2004)