Between Samaritans and States - The Political Ethics of Humanitarian Ingos

Zusatztext Jennifer Rubenstein's Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs provides an excellent analysis of the ethical dilemmas met by international humanitarian actors and maps in an innovative manner the ways in which orientation is possible through these dilemmas. The book provides as a result a groundbreaking, ambitious bridge between theoretical and practical considerations of the ethics of humanitarian aid in the wider political context. The book deserves to have significant impact in the sector and is a very worthy winner of this years ISA Ethics Book Award. Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Rubenstein is an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, specializing in political theory. Klappentext This book examines the difficult ethical quandaries faced by humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGOs). The book argues that the key to recognizing these predicaments and identifying that both politically and ethically, INGOs occupy a middle ground between the individual good Samaritan, and full-fledged conventional governments.2016 Winner of the APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award and ISA Ethics Panel Book Award Zusammenfassung This book examines the difficult ethical quandaries faced by humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGOs). The book argues that the key to recognizing these predicaments and identifying that both politically and ethically, INGOs occupy a middle ground between the individual good Samaritan, and full-fledged conventional governments.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Rubenstein, Jennifer (Assistant Professor Rubenstein, Jennifer C. Rubenstein, Rubenstein Jennifer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2016
• EAN: 9780198778691
• ISBN: 978-0-19-877869-1
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, Political science & theory, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights