Category: International Relations

February 29, 2012

Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed — Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan

The authors of Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience recount their experiences with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In particular they focus on some of the practical and frequently difficult experience of having to work with unfriendly governments or...

February 28, 2012

Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed in Somalia

On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience exploring the practical realities of conducting humanitarian negotiations in complex situations. In a recent...

February 27, 2012

Book Giveaway — Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience

This week our featured book is Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, edited by Claire Magone, Michael Neuman, and Fabrice Weissman, published on the fortieth anniversary of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Throughout the week we will highlight aspects of...

February 17, 2012

The Legacy of Dag Hammarskjold

“I realize now, that in comparison to [Dag Hammarskjöld], I am a small man. He was the greatest statesman of our century.”—John F. Kennedy We conclude our week-long feature on Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White...

February 16, 2012

Was Dag Hammarskjold's Death a Conspiracy?

A few weeks ago, the BBC reported on the continuing controversy concerning Dag Hammarskjold’s death in 1961 when his plane crashed in Zambia. His death, of course, is also the subject of Susan Williams’s new book, Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The...

February 15, 2012

Crash of Hammarskjöld’s Plane in 1961: ‘VIP planes don’t crash…’

Upon publication of Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa, the Hurst Blog, published an essay by Adrian Begg, who was then a 20-year-old officer in the Northern Rhodesia Police when Dag Hammarskojld’s plane...

February 14, 2012

‘Who Killed Hammarskjöld?’ and the UN in Zambia

While serving as United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative to Zambia from 1998-2005, Margaret O’Callaghan spoke at a memorial service upon the anniversary of UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold’s death. In an article originally published by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies...

February 1, 2012

Michael Neuman Discusses Doctors Without Borders and Humanitarian Negotiaons

In a recent episode of The Leonard Lopate Show, Michael Neuman discusses Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, which he co-edited with Claire Magone and Fabrice Weissman. The book has been published on the 40th anniversary of the international medical...

January 18, 2012

Siddharth Kara on How to End Sex Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Last week Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, was interviewed by Rahim Kanani on forbes.com. Kara who advises the U.N., the U.S. government , and other governments on anti-slavery research and policy, describes how...

December 23, 2011

American Force: Richard Betts on Possible Future Threats to the United States

In the conclusion to his book American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, Richard Betts explores some of the possible dangers that might confront the United States in the coming years. In particular he considers issues and possible...

December 22, 2011

American Force, by Richard Betts, Reviewed in Foreign Affairs

American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National , by Richard Betts recently received a serious and glowing review in Foreign Affairs: Betts describes himself as a Cold War hawk who became a post–Cold War dove. In this collection of...

December 21, 2011

Richard Betts on Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer

Earlier this year, Richard Betts, author of American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, wrote a much-discussed article in Foreign Affairs exploring the controversial visions of world politics put forth by Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer....