New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed - repeatedly. Europe first declared 'war' on cholera in the 19th century. It didn't defeat...

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to...

"Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan" von Alex de Waal ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der Hungersnot in Darfur während der 1980er Jahre. De Waal analysiert die sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Faktoren, die zur Krise führten,...