{"product_id":"humanitarian-business-hardback-9780745663319","title":"Humanitarian Business (Hardback) 9780745663319","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHumanitarian Business\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas G. Weiss (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745663319, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 January 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.449 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Extremely well written and clear, \u003ci\u003eHumanitarian Business\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent introduction to modern humanitarianism.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Hopgood, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Thomas G. Weiss exposes the increasingly competitive nature of the humanitarian world as well as the ways in which states and other actors seek to manipulate emergency relief. An essential analysis of the contemporary aid industry.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJeff Crisp, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Thomas G. Weiss has made an outstanding contribution to the understanding and policymaking of humanitarian action for more than twenty-five years. In this new book, he continues to do so by challenging international humanitarians and their government donors to think about their profession as a business.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHugo Slim, Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWith 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'. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 priceÑfrom access and principles, to moral authority and lives.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword by Hugo Slim xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Responding to Humanitarian Demands 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Contemporary Landscape: Need and Greed 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Coordination vs. Competition in an Unregulated Market 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Market Distortions from Above and Below 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Push and Pull of Coming to the Rescue 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 What Next? 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Reading 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 218\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407329161496,"sku":"9780745663319","price":52.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745663319.jpg?v=1784162520","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/humanitarian-business-hardback-9780745663319","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}