POLS 3320 Lecture 9: lec 9

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3320
• Professor: Craig Johnson

Document Summary

Humanitarianism during the cold war: cold war- series of proxy wars between soviet union and usa- they never actually went to war. Fearing the soviet union; had a lot of power, nuclear weapons: usa trying to influence dev agencies beofre soviet could. North korea in attacking south korea- starts one of the first peace keeping missions (growing concern for communism here: fidel castro takes power in cuba (1959)- yet another large loss for. Usa, they see communism growing even more as ties with soviet union and cuba begin! Recipient governments state building, ethnic politics, and human rights ngos are often caught in the middle of these things. Inter- agency conflicts ngos are undergoing crisis of identity and confidence in what they are doing. Intra-agency conflicts when certain agencies ditch" other agencies and withhold their aid in order to prioritize correctly- instead of working together.