This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with authoritarian practices and negotiate access to populations in danger. Chapters provide insights at the macro, meso, and micro levels through case studies on the international and domestic legal and political framing of humanitarian contexts (Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Russia, and Syria), as well as the actual practice of negotiating with authoritarian regimes (Ethiopia). A theoretical grounding is provided through chapters elaborating on the ethics and trust-building dimensions of humanitarian negotiations, and an overview chapter provides a theoretical framework through which to analyse humanitarian negotiations against the back of different types of authoritarian practices. This book provides a wide-ranging view which broadens the frame of reference when considering how humanitarians view and engage with authoritarian practices. The objective is to both put these contexts into conceptual order and provide a firm theoretical basis for understanding the politics of humanitarian negotiations in such difficult contexts. This book is useful for those studying international politics and humanitarian studies, as well as for practitioners seeking to better systematise their humanitarian negotiations. Chapters 1, 6 and 8: Commentary of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.<br/><br/> <p >Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with authoritarian practices and negotiate access to populations in danger. Useful for students and practitioners with the fields of?international politics and humanitarian studies.<br/><br/>

<p class="MsoNormal">Preface??Introduction: Authoritarian practices and humanitarian negotiations? 1.?The friction of practice ? reflecting on the Medecins Sans Frontieres experience with ‘authoritarian regimes’??Commentary: Reflections on Discourse? 2.?Humanitarian negotiation: Challenges and compromise in hard-to-reach areas? Commentary: ‘Security reasons’??3. The vocabulary of negotiations: Sovereignty and authoritarian arguments in the Security Council ?Commentary: A Critique? 4.?The Xinjiang case and its implication for the rights debate in China: What role for NGOs and humanitarian negotiations???Commentary: A personal reflection on working in China? 5.?Daily negotiations with state agencies in the field ? reflections from refugee camps in Western Ethiopia??Commentary: Independence? 6.?Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan ?Commentary: A brief critical reflection on Afghanistan? 7.?Roma structural discrimination in contemporary Russia: Institutions involved and measures (not) taken??Commentary: Different types, different responses? 8.?Humanitarian apparatus of silence: Authoritarian denial and aid assemblage in Venezuela ?Commentary: Between instrumentalisation, depoliticisation, and legitimation? 9.?Chapter nine: Mopping up, keeping down, and propping up: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations with authoritarian regimes ?Conclusion: Theory and praxis ? constructing the relationship between authoritarian practices and humanitarian negotiations