Recommended Reading

Below are some English language publications which we recommend to potential MSF field and office staff--and to anyone who would like to learn more about the issues which directly affect humanitarian aid today. Also, our Publications section contains the full texts of some other interesting reading material on the topics of humanitarian aid and intervention.

• The Médecins Sans Frontières Experience, by Rony Brauman, former President of MSF and Joelle Tanguy, former U.S. Executive Director of MSF
  Published in A Framework for Survival, edited by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., BasicBooks.
   
• "Refugee Camps, Population Transfers, and NGOs", by Rony Brauman, former President of MSF
  Article published in Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention, edited by Jonathan Moore, Rowman and Littlefield.
   
• Humanitarian Neutrality: Myth or Reality, by Alain Destexhe, former International Secretary General of MSF
  Published in Preventive Diplomacy, edited by Kevin Cahill, BasicBooks.
   
• "From Solferino to Sarajevo", by Alain Destexhe
  Article published in "Health and Huamn Rights Quarterly", Vol. 2, No. 1.
   
• "The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid", by Micahel Ignatieff
  Article published in Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention, edited by Jonathan Moore, Rowman and Littlefield.
   
• Refugee and Displaced Populations
  Chapter published in Refugee Health, (pp. 13-36), MSF, Mcmillan 1997.
   
• The Plight of the World's Refugees, At the Crossroads of Protection, by Francois Jean
  Chapter published in World in Crisis: Populations in Danger 1997.
   
• "International Law and Reality: The Protection Gap", by Ian Quest and Francoise Saulnier
  Article published in World in Crisis: Populations in Danger 1997.
   
• "The Humanitarian Impulse: Imperatives Versus Consequences", by Fiona Terry
  Unpublished paper presented at convention, Washington, February 17, 1999.
   

OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST

• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Disease in a World Out of Balance
  by Laurie Garrett. Penguin USA, 1995.
   
• Famine Crimes; Politics and the Disaster Relief Insdustry in Africa (African Issues)
  by Alex de Waal, Alexander de Waal. Indiana University Press, 1998.
   
• Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death
  by Susan D. Moeller. Routledge, 1998.
   
• Public Health Policies and Social Inequality
  by Charles F. Andrain. NYU Press, 1998.
   
• World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era
  by Stanley Hoffman (Preface). Rowan & Littlefield, 1998.
   
• The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered
  by George Soros, Geoof Shandler. PublicAffairs, 1998.