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Defensive Humanitarianism: Swiss Internment Camps in WWI
No full textDuring World War I, the Swiss state interned nearly 30,000 foreign soldiers who had previously been held in POW camps in Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, Austria, and Russia. The internment camp system that Switzerland implemented arose from a Swiss diplomatic platform that this thesis describes as defensive humanitarianism. By offering good offices to the belligerent states of WWI, the Swiss state utilized humanitarian law both to secure Swiss neutrality and to alleviate, to a degree, the immense human suffering of the war. This thesis fills a gap in the historiographical literature as one of the few papers in English on the topic, as well as one of the only to holistically consider the internment camp system as a panacea for the crises that the Swiss state faced during WWI. By mixing domestic concerns with international diplomacy and humanitarianism, a domestic policy platform taken to the international diplomatic level succeeded in building enough trust between the signatory states to create an internment system that reconceptualized the treatment of foreign soldiers from the holding of prisoners to the healing of men
The U.S. Military’s 2018 National Defense Strategy
No full textThe U.S. Military’s 2018 National Defense Strateg
Review of "American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s"
No full textReview of "American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s
Update from Germany
No full textIn this brief message to the CENFAD community, Eric Perinovic, the 2017-2018 Davis Fellow details his recent work and experiences as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany
Interview with Jason Smith
No full textJason Smith of Southern Connecticut State University discusses his research and his recently published book, To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Enviornment, and the Cartography of Empire.
Foreign Aid and Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An Analysis of International Barriers to Development
No full textThe Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. Despite its abundance of natural resources, it has failed to develop and maintain political stability since its decolonization in 1960. With its unstable and corrupt government, the DRC’s primary source of fiscal investment comes from foreign aid, from both International Organizations (IOs), like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, as well as International Non-Governmental Organization (INGOs). In this paper I examine how the role of international aid from The World Bank, IMF, and INGOs has contributed to the pervasive stagnation of the DRC’s economic growth, and how aid can be implemented equitably and efficiently. In order to create a comprehensive overview of economic development in the DRC, I analyze the repercussions of colonial legacies, government corruption, the benefits of foreign aid, and possible neo-colonial implications of foreign aid on the country’s growth. After analyzing the sum of these effects on economic growth, we can conclude that ultimately foreign aid is necessary for development in the DRC; however, adjustments must be made to current aid programs in order to create equitable growth
Cost of Imperialism: The Decline of French-American Relations During the Cold War
No full textCost of Imperialism: The Decline of French-American Relations During the Cold Wa
Which was the Most Significant factor in Causing the United States to Intervene in Guatemala in 1954: Business Interests or Anti-Communism?
No full textWhich was the Most Significant factor in Causing the United States to Intervene inGuatemala in 1954: Business Interests or Anti-Communism
Note from the Non-Resident Fellow
No full textIn this brief piece, CENFAD\u27s Non-Resident Fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year introdurces himself and gives a brief synopsis of his academic history and current research
