Humanitarian Intervention and Relief - Bibliography
Bolling, Landrum R. Private Foreign Aid: U.S. Philanthropy for Relief and Development. Boulder, Colo., 1982.
Bremmer, Robert H. American Philanthropy. 2d ed. Chicago, 1988.
Burner, David. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. New York, 1979.
Curti, Merle. American Philanthropy Abroad: A History. New Brunswick, N.J., 1963. The most comprehensive survey of the history of American international relief efforts.
Curti, Merle, and Kendall Birr. Prelude to Point Four: American Technical Missions Overseas, 1838–1938. Madison, Wisc., 1954.
De Waal, Alexander. Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa. Bloomington, Ind., 1997.
Dulles, Foster Rhea. The American Red Cross: A History. New York, 1950. A detailed survey of the early history of the American Red Cross.
Field, James A. America and the Mediterranean World, 1776–1882. Princeton, N.J., 1969.
Garrett, Stephen A. Doing Good and Doing Well: An Examination of Humanitarian Intervention. Westport, Conn., 1999. Discusses philosophical and legal arguments for humanitarian intervention.
Gorman, Robert F. Historical Dictionary of Refugee and Disaster Relief Organizations. International Organizations Series, no. 7. Metuchen, N.J., 1994.
Hoover, Herbert. An American Epic. 4 vols. Chicago, 1959–1964. Hoover's own account of his relief activities.
Kent, Randolph C. The Anatomy of Disaster Relief: The International Network in Action. New York, 1987. An analysis of the network of organizations that responds to disasters, including nongovernmental organizations, governments, and intergovernmental organizations. Kent favors the development of an international relief system that is more effectively coordinated.
Kuperman, Alan J. The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda. Washington, D.C., 2001.
Minear, Larry, and Thomas G. Weiss. Mercy Under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community. Boulder, Colo, 1995.
Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover. 2 vols. New York, 1983, 1988.
Nichols, J. Bruce. The Uneasy Alliance: Religion, Refugee Work, and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York, 1988.
O'Hanlon, Michael. Saving Lives With Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention. Washington, D.C., 1997. A 1990s argument for selective use of force in humanitarian intervention with conditions for its application.
Osgood, Robert. Ideals and Self-Interest in America's Foreign Relations. Chicago, 1953.
Rosenberg, Emily S. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945. New York, 1982. Humanitarian intervention and relief are not the focus of this book, but it is one of the few examples of diplomatic history monographs that incorporate this aspect of American foreign relations.
Ross, Ishbel. Angel of the Battlefield: The Life of Clara Barton. New York, 1956.
Rotberg, Robert I., and Thomas G. Weiss, eds. From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises. Washington, D.C., 1996.
Shawcross, William. The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience. New York, 1984. A reflective discussion of the response to disasters, based largely on an eyewitness to the international response to the mass slaughter in Cambodia from 1979 into the early 1980s.
Technical Assistance Information Clearing House. U.S. Non-Profit Organizations in Development Assistance Abroad. New York, 1956–. Published in varying years by the American Council of Voluntary Agencies.
Tesón, Fernando R. Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 1988. A philosophical defense of humanitarian intervention, with a discussion of the evolution of international law.
Wallerstein, Mitchel B. Food for War—Food for Peace: United States Food Aid in a Global Context. Cambridge, Mass., 1980.
Weiss, Thomas G., and Larry Minear, eds. Humanitarianism across Borders: Sustaining Civilians in Times of War. Boulder, Colo., 1993.
Weissman, Benjamin M. Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923. Stanford, Calif., 1974.
Wilson, Joan Hoff. Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive. Boston, 1975.
Winters, Paul A, ed. Interventionism. San Diego, Calif., 1995. A textbook providing an overview of arguments on interventionism, this book reflects much of the debate on humanitarian intervention in the 1990s.