Binding: Paperback
Description: With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi - billion dollar enterprise and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to 'stay in business'. In his customarily hard - hitting analysis Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating insights into the complexities and challenges of the contemporary humanitarian marketplace. In addition to changing political and military conditions that generate demand for aid private suppliers have changed too. Today's political economy places aid agencies side - by - side with for - profit businesses including private military and security companies in a marketplace that also is linked to global trade networks in illicit arms natural resources and drugs. This witch's brew is simmering in the cauldron of wars that are often protracted and always costly to civilians who are the very targets of violence. While belligerents put a price - tag on access to victims aid agencies pursue branding in a competition for 'scarce resources relative to the staggering needs. As marketization encroaches on traditional humanitarianism it seems everything may have a price from access and principles to moral authority and lives.
Title: Humanitarian Business
Author(s): Weiss Thomas G. (City University Of New York)
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9780745663326
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 3/4/2013
Category: International Relations