Bulletin n. 2/2016
December 2016
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Wilkinson Iain
    Editorial introduction: Understanding modern humanitarianism
    in International Social Science Journal , Volume 65, Issue 215-216, March–June 2014 ,  2014 ,  7-11
    The full text is free: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12081/full Over the last 30 years there has been an unprecedented gathering of academic interest around the topic of modern humanitarianism. The issues congregated here suggest that some significant changes are taking place in the political currency of social problems and in our shared frames of cultural self-understanding. When studying modern humanitarianism we are involved in charting the moral character and institutional formations of global civil society (Calhoun 2004, 2008; DeChaine 2002; Delanty 2000; Kaldor 2002). This is further understood to provide us with insights into the presiding rationalities within structures of global governance (Fassin 2012; Narkunas 2014). On many accounts, the study of modern humanitarian principles and practices is important for the extent to which it serves to expose the dynamics set in contemporary power relations; and especially where these are held to be justified on the grounds that they operate to promote “human rights” and/or the “good of humanity”...
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