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1. Humanitarianism Contested

   Where Angels Fear to Tread

   By Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss

   Series: Global Institutions

   This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case...

   Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
2. The International Humanitarian Order

   By Michael Barnett

   Series: Security and Governance

   One of the genuinely remarkable but relatively unnoticed developments of the last half-century is the blossoming of an international humanitarian order – a complex of norms, informal institutions, laws, and discourses that legitimate and compel various kinds of interventions by state and nonstate...

   Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge