Mass Starvation

The History and Future of Famine
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5095-2467-9
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy.

In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon.

Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Waal, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Part I: Perspectives on Famine and Starvation

Chapter 1: An Unacknowledged Achievement

Chapter 2: Famines as Atrocities

Chapter 3: Malthus’s Zombie

Chapter 4: A Short History of Modern Famines

Part II: How Famines Were Almost Eliminated

Chapter 5: Demography, Economics, Public Health

Chapter 6: Politics, War, Genocide

Chapter 7: The Humanitarian International

Chapter 8: Ethiopia: No Longer the Land of Famine

Part III: The Persistence and Return of Famines

Chapter 9: The Famine that isn’t Coming

Chapter 10: The New Atrocity Famines

Chapter 11: Mass Starvation in the Future

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School, Tuft's University.