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Colonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva toĀ demand a repartition of the spoilsnew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsat the paris peace conference of , the alliesĀ agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsthe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easierĀ to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinydrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world ordersee oxfam website for delivery information read morebritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwisethe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisisminor signs of shelf wear
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This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the realities of these new humanitarianisms and for the fields of international relations, anthropology, development studies, and peace studiesdrawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in conflict environments around the world, van arsdale and smith offer this important and revealing guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called green zones of safetyon behalf of governments or ngos, on missions ranging from complex humanitarian emergencies to post-war reconstruction, social scientists in interdisciplinary teams are operating in settings where the line between civilian and military projects is increasingly blurredsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop beverley more than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch
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