Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "O'Sullivan, Kevin"
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'Ah, Ireland, the caring nation': foreign aid and Irish state identity in the long 1970s
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Cambridge University Press, 2013-05)On a plane leaving Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia in late 1992, an Arab doctor offered John O'Shea, head of the relief agency Goal, a glimpse of how the Irish were viewed in that civil war-ravaged state. ‘Ah, Ireland’, he ... -
Aidland in South Asia: humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-06-07)This article uses the experiences of expatriate aid workers in South Asia to examine the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s. It begins by outlining the impact of the crisis on the aid sector, before using ... -
Between internationalism and empire: Ireland, the 'Like-Minded' group, and the search for a new international order, 1974-82
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-07-31)This article examines the response of a group of small and medium-sized states to the Global South's demands for a new international economic order in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reading that experience through the eyes of ... -
Biafra's legacy: NGO humanitarianism and the Nigerian civil war
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Overseas Development Institute, 2016-10)[No abstract available] -
Civil war in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-03)This article traces the global humanitarian sector s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in three Anglophone states (Britain, ... -
A "global nervous system": The rise and rise of European humanitarian NGOs
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)Going a step beyond the guiding principle of Amnesty International and the human rights movement that individuals could change the policies of foreign governments humanitarian NGOs emphasised the power of ... -
Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-21)This article examines the influence of the Biafran humanitarian crisis on British and Irish conceptions of the Third World. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in both countries, it argues that the explosion of non-governmental ... -
Humanitarianisms in context
O'Sullivan, Kevin; Hilton, Matthew; Fiori, Juliano (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-03-16)This introduction describes the rapidly expanding history of non-state humanitarianism in terms of three themes. First, it argues that we should think about humanitarianism less in terms of ruptures or breaks, and focus ... -
The search for justice: NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the New International Economic Order, 1968-82
O'Sullivan, Kevin (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)The rapid expansion of the international humanitarian NGO community in the long 1970s brought with it much soul-searching on how NGOs could move beyond charity and towards genuine solidarity with the Third World. Drawing ...