POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oxfam, War Reparations, Self-Determination
9 Mar 2017
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Inter-war period: ww2, new world order, post ww2, by looking at these forces we can explain humanitarianism. Forces of destruction: aid as response to devastation/displacemwnt caused by great warfare in. Forces of production: shift away from empires state-led development. Forces of compassion: state sovereignty and refugee regime. Todays themes: secularization (cid:494)humanitarian big bang(cid:495) increase period, rise of secular ngos (care, save the children, oxfam came out of this, sovereignty, self-determination (came out of ww1 and treaty of versaille in paris) Secularization - humanitarian big bang: barnett talks about secularization re humanitarianism, talks about the emergence of secular organizations, save the children, dealing w suffering post ww1, care, us based effort to help europe. Paris 1919: national sovereignty & the pols of self-determination. Idea of european power being produced thru paris treaty middle east (in mandate form: (cid:498)the people without history(cid:499, agreed to divide the middle east.
