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"The Academic World in the Era of the Great War" is a book that explores the role of universities and intellectuals during the First World War from a comparative and transnational perspective. The editors aim to understand how academic internationalism transformed and shaped academic relations during and after the war. The book is divided into three parts, focusing on mobilizations, ruptures, and demobilizations, and includes case studies on topics such as German propaganda professors in the USA, masculinity in British science, and post-war attempts to reconcile academic relationships. While the book provides new perspectives on the history of universities and science diplomacy during wartime, it still primarily focuses on national perspectives and could benefit from further exploration of colonial and imperial constellations. [Extracted from the article]

Given that this was a period of weak central state governance, such famine relief could only have originated in the indigenous non-state sector of society. Chapter Six, "Village Mutual Aid", reaffirms that the majority of relief efforts came from non-state actors, continuing the process of state devolution of responsibility that began in the late Qing. A second argument warranting attention is Fuller's descriptions of robust non-state efforts towards famine relief in 1920-1921. [Extracted from the article]

As many scholars have noted, Aristide's second term was a period marked by economic and environmental crises. In 2000, Jean-Bertrand Aristide won the Haitian presidential elections for a second time. There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "The Brutality of Nations," by Dan Jacobs.

A review essay on Christopher Coyne's Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013). The book considers whether state-led humanitarian actions can be expected to succeed in reducing human suffering. Finding that as a rule they cannot be expected to do so, Coyne devotes the greater part of the book to an analysis of such programs in the light of the economic way of thinking, which in his approach blends public choice, basic applied price theory, Austrian economics, and the new institutional economics. He concludes that the best way to reduce human suffering in the long run is by promoting sustained economic development and that the best way to achieve such development is by adopting institutions that protect economic freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation," by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian, is presented.

The scale of refugee movements has expanded dramatically in recent years. At the same time international assistance for refugees and displaced persons has declined. Increasingly limited opportunities for resettlement and limited resources for assistance do not bode well for meeting the nutritional housing, health, and psychological needs of millions of adults and children. This article reviews these global trends and identifies the international and service issues they raise. Future prospects for meeting the needs of refugees and for repatriation are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Scholarly examination of the politics and economics of displacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails," by Christopher J. Coyne.

The article reviews the book "Aid Effectiveness in Africa: Developing Trust Between Donors and Governments," by Phyllis R. Pomerantz.

Reviews the book `Evaluating Development Aid--Issues, Problems and Solutions,' by Basil Cracknell.

Reviews the book "In the Shadow of 'Just Wars': Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action," by Médecins Sans Frontières.

The article reviews the book "Disaster and Development: The Politics of Humanitarian Aid," by Neil Middleton and Phil O' Keefe.

Reviews the book 'Rice, Rivalry, and Politics: Managing Cambodian Relief,' by Linda Mason and Roger Brown.

Reviews the book 'Private Foreign Aid: U.S. Philanthropy for Relief and Development,' by Landrum R. Bolling and Craig Smith.

Reviews the book 'The United Nations in Bangladesh,' by Thomas W. Oliver.

Reviews the book "Relief for Europe; The First Phase of Reconstruction."

Reviews the Live 8 series of concerts held in eight major world cities on July 3, 2005.

Reviews the book "The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy," edited by Deen K. Chatterjee.

The article reviews the book "The Whole Wide World Without Limits: International Relief, Gender Politics, and American-Jewish Women, 1893-1930," by Mary McCune.

Reviews the book "The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921," by Bertrand M. Patenaude.

Reviews the book "Healing Communities in Conflict: International Assistance in Complex Emergencies," by K.A. Maynard.

The article reviews the book "Humanitarian Intervention: Just War vs Pacifism," by Robert L. Phillips and Duane L. Cady.

Reviews the book "In the Margins of Chaos: Recollections of Relief Work in and Between Three Wars," by Francesca M. Wilson.

The article reviews the book "Not Breaking the Rules, Not Playing the Game: International Assistance to Countries at War," by Zoë Marriage.

The article reviews the book "The City Is a Rising Tide," by Rebecca Lee.

Reviews the book "The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crisis of the 1990s," by Sadako Ogata.

Reviews the book "Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge," by William Powers.