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'Saving Strangers': Rhetoric and Humanitarian Intervention

PWR 1JL - Winter 2014 - Instructor: Lee, J.
Last Updated: 27-Feb-2014

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Subjects

General and interdisciplinary
International government organizations
Political science
International relations and politics

Background/reference sources:

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices. 2 vols. (IC)
Encyclopedia of human rights. 5 vols. (IC)
"Humanitarian intervention," Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Humanitarian response index. Several volumes, Latest is 2011. (SSRC)

Selected subject terms:

Note: Add "moral and ethical aspects" to any subject search.

Selected books:

 

 

Empire of humanity : a history of humanitarianism / Michael Barnett.
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Green Library » Stacks » JZ6369 .B348 2011
Also online.
Modern warfare : armed groups, private militaries, humanitarian organizations, and the law / edited by Benjamin Perrin.
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2012.
Law Library (Crown) » Basement » KZ6471 .M63 2012
The new humanitarians : inspiration, innovations, and blueprints for visionaries / edited by Chris E. Stout ; foreword by Mehmet Oz.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » HV27 .N49 2009 V.1

Suggested series:

Suggested journals:

Latest in Current Periodicals. FIND FULL TEXT in Searchworks records to see online sources.

Forced migration review.
Oxford, UK : Refugee Studies Programme in Association with the Global IDP Survey, [1998]-
Green Library » Current Periodicals
Use Academic Search Premier link. (DOAJ is in French.)
Foreign affairs.
[New York, Council on Foreign Relations]
Green Library » Current Periodicals
Human rights quarterly.
[Baltimore, Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, [c1981-
Green Library » Current Periodicals

Suggested databases:

  • Academic Search Premier - "choose databases" to add Africa-Wide Information, Alternative Press Index, Historical Abstracts, Left Index
  • Access World News (Newsbank) - see links on the left to: Special Reports and Hot Topics
  • Facts on File World News Digest: 1940-; includes historical documents and background articles
  • ProQuest Research Library  - Click on "all databases" at the top to select ALL or add specific databases, such as PAIS (politics and public policy), Philosopher's Index, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, and more.

Suggested websites:

Human rights resources