Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans: From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics

During the Cold War, humanitarianism became the focus of intense debates among intellectuals, politicians, and diplomats from capitalist, socialist, and nonaligned countries about the boundaries between the political and nonpolitical. However, with the fall of socialism near the end of the twentieth century, these discussions over what humanitarianism is, what it could be, and what it ought to be were largely forgotten.

Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans examines how the fall of socia...