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Author Rubenstein, Jennifer C., author

Title Between Samaritans and states : the political ethics of humanitarian INGOs / Jennifer C. Rubenstein
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages .)
Series UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1.A Cartographic Approach -- 1.2.A Map of Humanitarian INGO Political Ethics -- 1.3. Four Ethical Predicaments -- 1.4. Eight Extant Alternatives -- 1.5. Democratic, Egalitarian, Humanitarian, and Justice-Based Norms -- 1.6. Contributions to Existing Literatures -- 1.7. Scope of the Study, Fieldwork, and Methodology -- 1.8. Outline of the Book -- 2. Eight Extant Alternative Approaches -- 2.1. INGOs as Rescuers -- 2.2. INGOs as Partners -- 2.3. INGOs as Agents for their Donors -- 2.4. INGOs as Agents for their Intended Beneficiaries -- 2.5. Accountability -- 2.6. Traditional Humanitarian Principles -- 2.7. INGOs as Neo-Colonialists -- 2.8. INGOs as Multinational Corporations -- 2.9. Conclusion -- 3.A Map of Humanitarian INGO Political Ethics -- 3.1. Humanitarian INGOs are Sometimes Somewhat Governmental -- 3.2. Humanitarian INGOs are Highly Political -- 3.3. Humanitarian INGOs are Often Second-Best Actors -- 3.4. Moral Permissions
Note continued: 3.5. Conclusion: Four Ethical Predicaments -- 4. The Problem of Spattered Hands -- 4.1. The Distinctiveness of Spattered Hands Ethical Predicaments -- 4.2. Do No Harm, Complicity, Doctrine of Double Effect, Dirty Hands -- 4.3. Spattered Hands -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 5. The Quandary of the Second-Best -- 5.1. INGO Advocacy as Non-Electoral Representation -- 5.2. INGO Advocacy as Equal Partnership -- 5.3. INGO Advocacy as the Exercise of Power -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 6. The Cost-Effectiveness Conundrum -- 6.1. INGOs' Large-Scale Decisions about Resource Use -- 6.2. The Need Principle, the Harm Minimization Principle, and the Ethics of Refusal -- 6.3. Evaluating the Need Principle, the Harm Minimization Principle, and the Ethics of Refusal -- 6.4. The Ethics of Resistance -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. The Moral Motivation Tradeoff -- 7.1. The Standard View and Its Limitations -- 7.2. An Alternative Approach: The Moral Motivation Tradeoff
Note continued: 7.3. Strategies for Navigating the Moral Motivation Tradeoff -- 7.4. Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion: Political Political Ethics -- 8.1. Bringing the Four Maps Together -- 8.2. Implications for Donors -- 8.3. Specifying Democratic, Egalitarian, Humanitarian, and Justice-Based Norms for Humanitarian INGOs -- 8.4. Toward a Political Political Ethics
Summary Examining the difficult ethical quandaries faced by humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGOs), this book explains why INGOs occupy a middle ground between the individual good Samaritan and full-fledged conventional governments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Non-governmental organizations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
Niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
Form Electronic book
Author UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online). MaRLi UPSO 2015 Collection
ISBN 0191764663
9780191764660
9780191507014
0191507016