Practice of Humanitarian Intervention - Aid Workers, Agencies Institutions in Democratic Republic of Congo

List of contents

Introduction 1. Ruling the Congo: Colonial Legacies and Strategies of Rule Today 2. A Congo Ripe for Intervention: The Pitfalls of Knowledge Production 3. Managing the two faces of intervention: NGOs and the UN between Public Proclamations and Operations 4. The Insecurity of Legitimate and Effective Presence: The Individual in Intervention Conclusion

About the author

Kai Koddenbrock is lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Bremen.

Summary

This book examines the Western and local spheres of intervention and shows how their separation helps to perpetuate intervention.

Product details

• Authors: Kai Koddenbrock, Kai (Rwth Aachen Koddenbrock, Koddenbrock Kai
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138890183
• ISBN: 978-1-138-89018-3
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Politics & government, Politics and government