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Syria and the Neutrality Trap

The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
Englisch
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCerschienen am17.06.2021
The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance. According to international practice, humanitarian aid should be channelled through a state government that bears a particular responsibility for its population. Yet in Syria, the bulk of relief went through Damascus while the regime caused the vast majority of civilian deaths. Should the UN have severed its cooperation with the government and neglected its humanitarian duty to help all people in need? Decision-makers face these tough policy dilemmas, and often the neutrality trap snaps shut.This book discusses the political and moral considerations of how to respond to a brutal and complex crisis while adhering to international law and practice. The author, a scholar and senior diplomat involved in the UN peace talks in Geneva, draws from first-hand diplomatic, practitioner and UN sources. He sheds light on the UN´s credibility crisis and the wider implications for the development of international humanitarian and human rights law. This includes covering the key questions asked by Western diplomats, NGOs and international organizations, such as: Why did the UN not confront the Syrian government more boldly? Was it not only legally correct but also morally justifiable to deliver humanitarian aid to regime areas where rockets were launched and warplanes started? Why was it so difficult to render cross-border aid possible where it was badly needed? The meticulous account of current international practice is both insightful and disturbing. It tackles the painful lessons learnt and provides recommendations for future challenges where politics fails and humanitarians fill the moral void.mehr
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KlappentextThe Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance. According to international practice, humanitarian aid should be channelled through a state government that bears a particular responsibility for its population. Yet in Syria, the bulk of relief went through Damascus while the regime caused the vast majority of civilian deaths. Should the UN have severed its cooperation with the government and neglected its humanitarian duty to help all people in need? Decision-makers face these tough policy dilemmas, and often the neutrality trap snaps shut.This book discusses the political and moral considerations of how to respond to a brutal and complex crisis while adhering to international law and practice. The author, a scholar and senior diplomat involved in the UN peace talks in Geneva, draws from first-hand diplomatic, practitioner and UN sources. He sheds light on the UN´s credibility crisis and the wider implications for the development of international humanitarian and human rights law. This includes covering the key questions asked by Western diplomats, NGOs and international organizations, such as: Why did the UN not confront the Syrian government more boldly? Was it not only legally correct but also morally justifiable to deliver humanitarian aid to regime areas where rockets were launched and warplanes started? Why was it so difficult to render cross-border aid possible where it was badly needed? The meticulous account of current international practice is both insightful and disturbing. It tackles the painful lessons learnt and provides recommendations for future challenges where politics fails and humanitarians fill the moral void.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-7556-4139-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2021
Erscheinungsdatum17.06.2021
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 159 mm, Höhe 231 mm, Dicke 16 mm
Gewicht334 g
Artikel-Nr.57980782
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
ForewordAbbreviations1. Introduction to a Tough Dilemma2. Expectations and Disillusions Beyond Syria3. Containing the Human Beast: Fundamentals of International Humanitarian and Human Rights LawThe Government´s Particular ResponsibilityState-centred International PracticeNeutrality and ImpartialityCountries´ Controversial Consent4. A Moving Target: Dynamics of International Humanitarian and Human Rights LawLaw or WarAn Octopus with Dwindling ForceContested Notions of State Sovereignty5. The Terrorism Tool: De-humanizing the OtherThe Sin of Rage at Ground ZeroThe Myth of the Unlawful CombatantPoisonous RhetoricA Self-fulfilling Prophecy 6. De-Neutralizing Aid: All Roads Lead to Damascus The Government´s Grip on Humanitarian Work Syrian Arab Red Crescent´s Plight in a Totalitarian System Western Diplomats´ DilemmaCross-Border Controversies in the Security Council7. In the Pillory: The UN´s Syria DilemmaComplicity with Evil Contracting Dangerous BedfellowsBetween All Fronts8. Credibility CrisisThe UN ReactsDonors React9. Diversifying Aid: Roads to Circumvent Damascus Humanitarian Plus A Double-edged SwordThe Reconstruction Gamble10. Irreconcilable Positions: Roads to NowhereFig Leaf for Political FailureDouble Deficiency Russia´s Soft Power FailureContempt for Multilateralism11. Arguments for Change: How to Avoid the Neutrality TrapConclusion BibliographyIndexmehr

Autor

Carsten Wieland is a German diplomat, senior UN consultant, Middle East and conflict expert with high-ranking mediation experience. He has served with three UN Special Envoys for Syria as Senior Expert for Intra-Syrian Talks and political advisor. He has also worked on political responses to the Syrian conflict for the German Foreign Office. In his diplomatic capacity he was also Director of the German Information Center for the Arab World in Cairo. Currently, he works as Senior Middle East Advisor for the Green Party Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.Wieland is also a lecturer at New York University (NYU) Berlin, Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), guest professor at the University Rosario in Bogotá, and previously a fellow at the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. He worked also as director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Colombia.A journalist by training, he reported from the United States, the Middle East and Latin America as a foreign correspondent for the German Press Agency (DPA). His academic publications include Syria: A Decade of Lost Chances (2012), Syria - Ballots or Bullets (2006) and Syria at Bay: Secularism, Islamism, and "Pax Americana" (2006).Wieland studied history, political science and philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin, Duke University in North Carolina and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.