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Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action

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Description for Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action Paperback. This is a comparative study of French versus British approaches to aid. Editor(s): Martin, Boris; Blanchet, Karl. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JKSR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 159 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is because these French doctors - first and foremost Medecins Sans Frontieres and its 'little sister' Medecins du Monde - have created a style of humanitarian action that combines intervention in crises with critical assessment of and commentary on the human tragedies -- wars, famines, earthquakes -- in which they find themselves involved. The humanitarian practices we are familiar with today were devised, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849041423
SKU
V9781849041423
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Ref
99-50

About Blanchet
Karl Blanchet is a research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Boris Martin is Editor of the French journal Humanitaire, published by Medecins du Monde- France. He is also an independent publisher and author.

Reviews for Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action
'The idea of contrasting French and British approaches to humanitarian action and simultaneously questioning the adequacy of a simple dichotomy between the two is worthwhile. Key issues - about the nature of humanitarianism, the relationships between humanitarianism and development, the questions of independence and neutrality - are discussed in novel ways and the differing assumptions of the authors force readers ... Read more

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