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Humanitarian Action in War Zones: Recent Experience and Future Research

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World Orders in the Making

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Abstract

The post-cold war’s initial optimism about the possibilities for human development, democratization and conflict resolution quickly yielded to more sober assessments about the prospects for international security and of multilateralism. Democratization has spread but so has micro-nationalism, fragmentation and massive human tragedies. The demise of East-West tensions did not end history but unleashed instead a far more painful period than Francis Fukuyama and others had hoped (Fukuyama 1992).

The present argument builds on presentations and comments at York University’s Centre for International and Strategic Studies, the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies and the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. The author is grateful for comments from David Caron, Ernst B. Haas and Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Parts of this argument appear in Thomas G. Weiss, ‘Reforming the International Humanitarian System for Wars’, in An Zolberg (ed.), Migration Policy in Global Perspective (forthcoming).

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Weiss, T.G. (1998). Humanitarian Action in War Zones: Recent Experience and Future Research. In: Pieterse, J.N. (eds) World Orders in the Making. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26894-8_2

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