After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire
This article is only available in English. Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the...
International humanitarian law, State sovereignty and the erosion of the humanitarian consensus: the end of humanitarianism?
This article examines the dilution of the legal framework on which humanitarian action has historically been based, primarily through the prism of international humanitarian law and related challenges posed to...
India: countermodel, alternative or future partner?
Together with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and specialised United Nations (UN) entities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from international civil society are the third-largest family of international actors....
India through Western eyes: a different way of managing humanitarian aid?
The rise of sovereignty does not spare humanitarian aid. A prime example of this trend, India rejects foreign interventionism on its territory while making humanitarian aid a component of its...
Taliban policies are a nightmare; so are economic warfare and starvation
Is it moral to deprive Afghans of their State’s sovereign wealth on the grounds that the Taliban took control of the country on 15 August 2021? Without ignoring the dramatic...
Senegal: The difficulty for NGOs to gain independence from the State
Taking the example of Congad, the Council of Non-Governmental Organisations for Development Support in Senegal, two young researchers help us to understand the difficulties that African NGOs encounter in trying...
The impact of international proceedings for bypassing the State: the example of Madagascar
Madagascar was severely hit by a protracted political and diplomatic crisis triggered by the 2009 military coup. The transitional government, in power until 2014, was unable to prevent the State...
Humanitarian implications of a re-assertion of State sovereignty
Whilst there is indeed a trend towards the strengthening of State sovereignty, this concept is more multifaceted and ambivalent than it might appear. The author invites us to take stock...
Sovereignty as responsibility in East Asia’s response to crises
Though aspects of Oscar Gómez’s article resonate with Duncan Mclean’s opening article, one is not a reflection of the other. The former has the merit of shifting the gaze on...
Localisation of aid through the lens of Covid-19: a matter of choice, or a last resort?
Vanuatu is one of the countries most exposed to natural hazards and one of the few in the world that has not recorded any case of Covid-19. Having closed its...