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Syria and the Neutrality Trap
The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes
Taschenbuch von Carsten Wieland
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den 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.
Zusammenfassung
Uses the case of the Syria war to provide guidance for political decisions in similar future conflicts
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword
Abbreviations
1. Introduction to a Tough Dilemma
2. Expectations and Disillusions Beyond Syria

3. Containing the Human Beast: Fundamentals of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law


The Government's Particular Responsibility
State-centred International Practice
Neutrality and Impartiality
Countries' Controversial Consent

4. A Moving Target: Dynamics of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
Law or War
An Octopus with Dwindling Force
Contested Notions of State Sovereignty

5. The Terrorism Tool: De-humanizing the Other
The Sin of Rage at Ground Zero
The Myth of the Unlawful Combatant
Poisonous Rhetoric
A 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' Dilemma
Cross-Border Controversies in the Security Council

7. In the Pillory: The UN's Syria Dilemma

Complicity with Evil
Contracting Dangerous Bedfellows
Between All Fronts

8. Credibility Crisis
The UN Reacts
Donors React

9. Diversifying Aid: Roads to Circumvent Damascus
"Humanitarian Plus"
A Double-edged Sword
The Reconstruction Gamble

10. Irreconcilable Positions: Roads to Nowhere
Fig Leaf for Political Failure
Double Deficiency
Russia's Soft Power Failure
Contempt for Multilateralism

11. Arguments for Change: How to Avoid the Neutrality Trap

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 200
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780755641390
ISBN-10: 0755641396
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wieland, Carsten
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 231 x 159 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Carsten Wieland
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,334 kg
preigu-id: 119648703
Über den 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.
Zusammenfassung
Uses the case of the Syria war to provide guidance for political decisions in similar future conflicts
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword
Abbreviations
1. Introduction to a Tough Dilemma
2. Expectations and Disillusions Beyond Syria

3. Containing the Human Beast: Fundamentals of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law


The Government's Particular Responsibility
State-centred International Practice
Neutrality and Impartiality
Countries' Controversial Consent

4. A Moving Target: Dynamics of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
Law or War
An Octopus with Dwindling Force
Contested Notions of State Sovereignty

5. The Terrorism Tool: De-humanizing the Other
The Sin of Rage at Ground Zero
The Myth of the Unlawful Combatant
Poisonous Rhetoric
A 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' Dilemma
Cross-Border Controversies in the Security Council

7. In the Pillory: The UN's Syria Dilemma

Complicity with Evil
Contracting Dangerous Bedfellows
Between All Fronts

8. Credibility Crisis
The UN Reacts
Donors React

9. Diversifying Aid: Roads to Circumvent Damascus
"Humanitarian Plus"
A Double-edged Sword
The Reconstruction Gamble

10. Irreconcilable Positions: Roads to Nowhere
Fig Leaf for Political Failure
Double Deficiency
Russia's Soft Power Failure
Contempt for Multilateralism

11. Arguments for Change: How to Avoid the Neutrality Trap

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 200
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780755641390
ISBN-10: 0755641396
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wieland, Carsten
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 231 x 159 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Carsten Wieland
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,334 kg
preigu-id: 119648703
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