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Authoritarian practices and humanitarian negotiations / edited by Andrew J Cunningham.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge humanitarian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authoritarianism.
- Non-governmental organizations--Case studies.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Humanitarian assistance--Case studies.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Security, International.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 253 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Andrew J Cunningham has been in the aid business since the late 1980s and has spent 25 years with MSF. He has a PhD in War Studies from King's College London, and his research focuses on INGO-State relations. Andrew works as a researcher, strategic evaluator, and governance advisor for various humanitarian organisations. His last book with Routledge was International Humanitarian NGOs and State Relations: Politics, Principles and Identity (2018). Andrew is also a board member of the International Humanitarian Studies Association.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Authoritarian practices and humanitarian negotiations
- The friction of practice
- reflecting on the Médecins Sans Frontieres experience with 'authoritarian regimes'
- Humanitarian negotiation: Challenges and compromise in hard-to-reach areas
- The vocabulary of negotiations: Sovereignty and authoritarian arguments in the Security Council
- The Xinjiang case and its implication for the rights debate in China: What role for NGOs and humanitarian negotiations?
- Daily negotiations with state agencies in the field
- reflections from refugee camps in Western Ethiopia
- Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
- Roma structural discrimination in contemporary Russia: Institutions involved and measures (not) taken
- Humanitarian apparatus of silence: Authoritarian denial and aid assemblage in Venezuela
- Mopping up, keeping down, and propping up: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations with authoritarian regimes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Authoritarian practices and humanitarian negotiations
- ISBN:
- 9781003316541
- 1003316549
- 9781003810124
- 1003810128
- 9781003810155
- 1003810152
- Publisher Number:
- 40032128681
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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