Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community

In Global Humanitarianism Daniel Robert Dechaine undertakes an historical-cultural analysis of humanitarian NGO rhetoric and politics. He focuses his study specifically on Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. This book, besides being the first of its kind, offers to the disciplines of political science, cultural studies, and sociology a model with which to consider the political and social roles of NGOs in the ever-changing global community.

Daniel Robert DeChaine is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, California State University, Los Angeles