Alex de Waal

Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.

In the LRB Archive:

• ‘I will not sign’: at the Darfur Peace Talks · 30 November 2006

• Chasing Ghosts: The Failure of Jihad in Africa · 18 August 2005

• Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap: The Road to Darfur · 5 August 2004

• The Unwritten Sociology of HIV: The War on Aids · 19 June 2003

  • Aids in the 21st Century: Disease and Globalisation by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside

• The Moral Solipsism of Global Ethics Inc on human rights, democracy and Amnesty International · 23 August 2001

  • Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International by Jonathan Power
  • Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century by Michael Edwards
  • East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel Bell

• ‘We do deserts, we don’t do mountains’ on the United Nations · 11 November 1999

  • Soldiers of Diplomacy: The United Nations, Peacekeeping and the New World Order by Jocelyn Coulon
  • Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention edited by Jonathan Moore
  • New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in the Global Era by Mary Kaldor

• Dangers of Discretion on international law · 21 January 1999

  • Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Caroline Moorehead
  • The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff

• Humanitarian Juggernaut · 22 June 1995

  • War and Law since 1945 by Geoffrey Best
  • Mercy under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community by Larry Minear and Thomas Weiss

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