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In the two decades that followed the traumatic events in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the paradigms of both international aid and international military action have profoundly changed. By 2008, strong political missions combined with robust peacekeeping operations, under the new doctrine of 'Integrated Missions', had become the norm for un involvement in conflict. This article will argue, illustrated by three examples in Afghanistan, Somalia and Mali, that these international military interventions, whether in the form of a un integrated mission, R2P or non-authorised allied initiatives like Iraq and Afghanistan, have a negative effect on access for humanitarian aid. This affects all aid agencies, as armed groups have neither the time nor inclination to note subtle differences between organisations within this international enterprise. The evolution to ever more proactive peacekeeping operations, reaching its culmination in 2013 in drc and to a lesser extend in Mali, has a direct effect on the impartial delivery of aid to all sides of a conflict. Whether or not the integrated model and offensive peacekeeping will have better outcomes for the longer term stability and security of populations trapped in conflict, is not addressed or challenged. But there is a price to pay for this approach: access for humanitarian aid will suffer.

The Politics of Fear is Médecins sans Frontières's commissioned analysis of the politics surrounding the 2014 Ebola epidemic and response. Comprising eleven topic-based chapters and four eyewitness vignettes from contributors inside and outside MSF (all of whom have been given access to MSF Ebola archives from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia for research), it aims to provide a politically agnostic account of the defining health event of the 21st century so far, a resource that will inform current opinions and foster effectual, cooperative response to the future epidemics

Contested Statehood : The Politics of Health Care in Syria -- Health System Fragmentation and the Syrian Conflict -- The Moral Norm, the Law, and the Limits of Protection for Wartime Medical Units -- When Perceptions and Aspirations Clash : Humanitarianism in Syria's Neighboring States -- The Business of Conflict : Humanitarian Assistance and the War Economy in Syria -- Endless Siege : The Chain of Complicity in Syrian Suffering -- Information Warfare and the Role of Global Humanitarians -- Naming and Shaming the Bombers.