...: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 . 376 pages . ISBN 978-0-691-15133-5 . $39.50 ( hardcover ). Copyright 2013 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2013 Reviews Stan Draenos: Andreas...

...Theodros Dagne Theodros Dagne is a specialist in African affairs with the Congressional Research Service. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Humanitarian Crises in Ethiopia and Eritrea Theodros Dagne An estimated 14 million to 16 million people...

...: Another Humanitarian Crisis? Theodros Dagne An estimated 16 million to 18 million people are in need of emergency assistance in the Horn of Africa region, according to United Nations and United States government...

...Ioannis Mantzikos In December 1992, the United Nations Security Council, acting under chapter 7 of its charter, authorized the use of all necessary means to secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to the people of Somalia. In the collapsing landscape of that country, however, the intervention...

... risks to regional security, and the stabilization and amelioration of the humanitarian and political crisis in Gaza. Turkey- Israel Relations in the New Era: Opportunities and Challenges Kilic B. Kanat and Jackson Hannon The bilateral relationship between Turkey and Israel has been one...

...Ted Galen Carpenter When the United States and its NATO allies helped insurgents overthrow Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the belief was that the intervention prevented a humanitarian catastrophe and that a post-Gaddafi Libya would be stable and democratic. Instead, Libya became...

... the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In surveying the international community’s response to humanitarian emergencies in 1999, we find two outstanding examples of intervention on explicitly humanitarian grounds: Kosovo and East Timor. They appeared, indeed...

.... Deng: The Impact of State Failure on Migration 17 international order. Human rights and humanitarian principles, of course, provide a basis for international involvement, which can take a wide variety of forms with varying degrees of intensity, ranging from diplomatic dialogue on behalf...

... Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815 – 1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 376 pages. ISBN 978-­0-­691-­15133-­5. $39.50 (hardcover). Reviewed by Perparim Gutaj. The period from 1815 to 1914 was an era of invention and liberalism, characterized...

... divide within the Maltese aid landscape. Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 Part of the empirical research for this essay was financed with the support of the European Union Lifelong Learning Program’s European Universities on Professionalization of Humanitarian Action, which...

... necessary means. The debate rages over issues such as the seeming subjugation of state sovereignty, authorization, who can and will intervene, and the scope of any humanitarian intervention. This is not to trivialize matters; indeed, these are worthy issues that must not be suppressed. However...

.... This is not to diminish the importance of the issues addressed in the Danforth report, but ending the terrible scourge of govern- ment-sponsored slavery, securing unconstrained and ongoing humanitarian access, halting barbarous assaults on civilians, and even sustaining a cease- fire in the Nuba Mountains all require...

... violence, starvation, and disease as Somalia was wracked by continued inter- nal chaos. On 9 November 1992, then-president George H. W. Bush autho- rized Operation Restore Hope, using the US military to safeguard nongov- ernmental organizations (NGOs) and their efforts to provide humanitarian...

... in the 1990s. It is welcome because dispas- sionate analysis of these policies has been superseded in the West by triumphalism, and especially, in editor Raju G. C. Thomas’s words, the “triumph of a new moral liberalism, which emphasized global humanitarianism over the old, cynical, state- centered...

...- sionate analysis of these policies has been superseded in the West by triumphalism, and especially, in editor Raju G. C. Thomas’s words, the “triumph of a new moral liberalism, which emphasized global humanitarianism over the old, cynical, state- centered realism.” This book is important both for what...

..., in editor Raju G. C. Thomas’s words, the “triumph of a new moral liberalism, which emphasized global humanitarianism over the old, cynical, state- centered realism.” This book is important both for what it teaches us about the conduct of foreign policy during the 1990s and for what it tells us about...

... been an unmitigated disaster. It failed to achieve any of its claimed objectives, it caused a humanitarian disaster in both Yugoslavia and Kosovo, and it destabilized the Balkans and paved the way for further bloodshed and violence. Even more seriously...

...Roger P. Winter Roger P. Winter is former assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance of the US Agency for International Development and former special representative of the US deputy secretary of state for Sudan. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc...

... 2011 missions) •  Conveying messages from the European leadership or international organizations to the representatives of southern Mediterranean coun- tries’ governments and parliaments • Facilitating humanitarian aid • Providing financial support • Assisting...

... agrees with the concept or not, there should be some recog- 11. Kofi Annan, “Facing the Humanitarian Challenge: Towards a Culture of Prevention,” in Towards a Culture of Prevention: Statements by the Secretary-General of the United Nations (New York: Carnegie...