Between Samaritans and States

This book provides the first book-length, English-language account of the political ethics of large-scale, Western-based humanitarian INGOs, such as Oxfam, CARE, and Doctors Without Borders. These INGOs are often either celebrated as heroes or do-going machines or maligned as incompetents ''on the road to hell''. In contrast, this book suggests the picture is more complicated.Drawing on political ...