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Agier, M. (2008) Gérer les indésirables. Des camps de réfugiés au gouvernement humanitaire . Cambridge: Polity Press.
Andaya, E. (2009) ‘The Gift of Health: Socialist Medical Practice and Shifting Material and Moral Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23(4):357–74.
Artaraz, K. (2012) ‘Cuba's Internationalism Revisited: Exporting Literacy, ALBA, and a New Paradigm for South-South Collaboration’, Bulletin of Latin American Research 31(1): 22–37.
Atlani-Duault, L. and J-P. Dozon (2011) ‘Colonisation, développement, aide humanitaire. Pour une anthropologie de l'aide internationale’, Ethnologie française 41(3), 393–403.
Audet, F. (2011) ‘L'acteur humanitaire en crise existentielle: Les défis du nouvel espace humanitaire’, Études internationales 42(4): 47–72.
Brotherton, S. (2013) ‘Fueling la Revolución: Itinerant Physicians, Transactional Humanitarianism, and Shifting Moral Economies’, in N. Burke (ed.) Health Travels: Cuban Health(Care) on the Island and Around the World . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 127–51.
Castro, M., S. Melluish and A. Lorenzo (2014) ‘Cuban Internationalism – An Alternative Form of Globalization’, International Review of Psychiatry 26(5): 595–601.
DePalo, W.A. (1993) ‘Cuban Internationalism: The Angola Experience, 1975–1988’, Parameters 23 (Autumn), 61–74.
Duffield, M. (2001) Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security . New York, NY: Zed Books.
Duffield, M. (2005) ‘Getting Savages to Fight Barbarians: Development, Security and the Colonial Present’, Conflict, Security & Development 5(2): 141–59.
Duffield, M. (2010) ‘Risk Management and the Fortified Aid Compound: Every-Day Life in Post-Interventionary Society’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 4: 453–74.
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Fagen, R.R. (1969) The Transformation of Political Culture in Cuba . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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Foucault, M. (2004b) Sécurité, territoire, population: cours au Collège de France 1977–1978 . Paris: Le Seuil-Gallimard.
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McFalls, L. and M. Pandolfi (2013) ‘The Fog of Humanitarian War: The Indistinguishability of Warriors, Enemies, Victims, and Saviors’, in James Faubion (ed.) Foucault Today . Cambridge: Polity Press.
Mérand, F. (2009) ‘Faut-il dire adieu à la souveraineté ?’, in Department of Political Science of Université de Montréal (ed.) La politique internationale en questions . Montréal, QC, Canada: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, pp. 26–35.
Minn, P. (2016) ‘Components of a Moral Economy: Interest, Credit, and Debt in Haiti's Transnational Health Care System’, American Anthropologist 118(1), 78–90.
Mouton, A. (2012) ‘L'humanitaire en évolution: changements de pratiques et positionnement des acteurs’, Les cahiers du CÉRIUM 1(1): 1–26.
Ngirumpatse, P. and C. Rousseau (2007) ‘L'échec de l'humanitaire’, Anthropologie et Sociétés 31(2): 191–202.
Pandolfi, M. (2006) ‘La zone grise des guerres humanitaires’, Canadian Anthropology Society 48(1): 43–58.
Pupavac, V. (2005) ‘Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance’, Conflict, Security & Development 5(2), 161–81.
Saillant, F. (2007) ‘Présentation: une anthropologie critique de l'humanitaire’, Anthropologie et Sociétés 31(2), 7–23.
Saney, I. (2006) ‘African Stalingrad: The Cuban Revolution, Internationalism, and the End of Apartheid’, Latin American Perspectives 33(5): 81–117.
Ticktin, M. (2014) ‘Transnational Humanitarianism’, Annual Review of Anthropology 43(1), 273–89.
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[1] Agier, M. (2002) Aux bords du monde, les réfugiés . Paris: Flammarion.

[2] Agier, M. (2008) Gérer les indésirables. Des camps de réfugiés au gouvernement humanitaire . Cambridge: Polity Press.

[3] Andaya, E. (2009) ‘The Gift of Health: Socialist Medical Practice and Shifting Material and Moral Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23(4):357–74.

[4] Artaraz, K. (2012) ‘Cuba's Internationalism Revisited: Exporting Literacy, ALBA, and a New Paradigm for South-South Collaboration’, Bulletin of Latin American Research 31(1): 22–37.

[5] Atlani-Duault, L. and J-P. Dozon (2011) ‘Colonisation, développement, aide humanitaire. Pour une anthropologie de l'aide internationale’, Ethnologie française 41(3), 393–403.

[6] Audet, F. (2011) ‘L'acteur humanitaire en crise existentielle: Les défis du nouvel espace humanitaire’, Études internationales 42(4): 47–72.

[7] Brotherton, S. (2013) ‘Fueling la Revolución: Itinerant Physicians, Transactional Humanitarianism, and Shifting Moral Economies’, in N. Burke (ed.) Health Travels: Cuban Health(Care) on the Island and Around the World . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 127–51.

[8] Castro, M., S. Melluish and A. Lorenzo (2014) ‘Cuban Internationalism – An Alternative Form of Globalization’, International Review of Psychiatry 26(5): 595–601.

[9] DePalo, W.A. (1993) ‘Cuban Internationalism: The Angola Experience, 1975–1988’, Parameters 23 (Autumn), 61–74.

[10] Duffield, M. (2001) Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security . New York, NY: Zed Books.

[11] Duffield, M. (2005) ‘Getting Savages to Fight Barbarians: Development, Security and the Colonial Present’, Conflict, Security & Development 5(2): 141–59.

[12] Duffield, M. (2010) ‘Risk Management and the Fortified Aid Compound: Every-Day Life in Post-Interventionary Society’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 4: 453–74.

[13] Eckstein, S. (1994) Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

[14] Fagen, R.R. (1969) The Transformation of Political Culture in Cuba . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

[15] Fanelli, C. (2008) ‘“Cubanalismo”: The Cuban Alternative to Neoliberalism’, Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 2(1), 7–16.

[16] Feinsilver, J.M. (1993) Healing the Masses: Cuban Health Politics at Home and Abroad . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

[17] Feinsilver, J.M. (2008) ‘Oil-for-Doctors: Cuban Medical Diplomacy Gets a Little Help from a Venezuelan Friend’, Nueve Sociedad 216. Available at http://www.ghd-net.org/research/case-studies/oil-doctors-cuban-medical-diplomacy-gets-little-help-venezuelan-friend. (Accessed 15 July 2016).

[18] Feinsilver, J.M. (2010) ‘Fifty Years of Cuba's Medical Diplomacy: From Idealism to Pragmatism’, Cuban Studies 41, 85–104.

[19] Foucault, M. (1976) ‘Droit de mort et pouvoir sur la vie’, in Michel Foucault (ed.) Histoire de la sexualité 1: La volonté de savoir . Paris: Éditions Gallimard, pp. 177–211.

[20] Foucault, M. (2004a) Naissance de la biopolitique: cours au Collège de France, 1978–1979 . Paris: Le Seuil-Gallimard.

[21] Foucault, M. (2004b) Sécurité, territoire, population: cours au Collège de France 1977–1978 . Paris: Le Seuil-Gallimard.

[22] Gronbeck-Tedesco, J.A. (2008) ‘The Left in Transition: The Cuban Revolution in US Third World Politics’, Journal of Latin American Studies 40(4): 651–73.

[23] Kirk, J.M. (2009) ‘Cuba's Medical Internationalism: Development and Rationale’, Bulletin of Latin American Research 28(4), 497–511.

[24] Kirk, J.M. and H.M. Erisman (2009) Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals . New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

[25] Kozol, J. (1978) Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schools . New York, NY: Delacorte.

[26] Martínez Suárez, N. (2006) ‘Política, Ciencia, Ética y Sociedad: su conjunción dialéctica en la experiencia del “Contingente Henry Reeve”’, Humanidades Médicas 6(19). Available at http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-81202006000300004. (Accessed 15 July 2016.)

[27] McFalls, L. (2008) ‘Les fondements rationnels et sociaux des passions politiques’, Anthropologie et société 32(3), 155–72.

[28] McFalls, L. (2009a) ‘Benevolent Dictatorship: The Formal Logic of Humanitarian Government’, in Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi (eds) States of Emergency . New York, NY: Zone.

[29] McFalls, L. (2009b) ‘Doit-on intervenir ?’, in Department of Political Science of Université de Montréal (ed.) La politique internationale en questions . Montréal, QC, Canada: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, pp. 214–23.

[30] McFalls, L. and M. Pandolfi (2012) ‘Post-Liberalism’, Academic Foresights 5 (July-September). Available at http://www.academic-foresights.com/Post-Liberalism.html. (Accessed 26 August 2016.)

[31] McFalls, L. and M. Pandolfi (2013) ‘The Fog of Humanitarian War: The Indistinguishability of Warriors, Enemies, Victims, and Saviors’, in James Faubion (ed.) Foucault Today . Cambridge: Polity Press.

[32] Mérand, F. (2009) ‘Faut-il dire adieu à la souveraineté ?’, in Department of Political Science of Université de Montréal (ed.) La politique internationale en questions . Montréal, QC, Canada: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, pp. 26–35.

[33] Minn, P. (2016) ‘Components of a Moral Economy: Interest, Credit, and Debt in Haiti's Transnational Health Care System’, American Anthropologist 118(1), 78–90.

[34] Mouton, A. (2012) ‘L'humanitaire en évolution: changements de pratiques et positionnement des acteurs’, Les cahiers du CÉRIUM 1(1): 1–26.

[35] Ngirumpatse, P. and C. Rousseau (2007) ‘L'échec de l'humanitaire’, Anthropologie et Sociétés 31(2): 191–202.

[36] Pandolfi, M. (2006) ‘La zone grise des guerres humanitaires’, Canadian Anthropology Society 48(1): 43–58.

[37] Pupavac, V. (2005) ‘Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance’, Conflict, Security & Development 5(2), 161–81.

[38] Saillant, F. (2007) ‘Présentation: une anthropologie critique de l'humanitaire’, Anthropologie et Sociétés 31(2), 7–23.

[39] Saney, I. (2006) ‘African Stalingrad: The Cuban Revolution, Internationalism, and the End of Apartheid’, Latin American Perspectives 33(5): 81–117.

[40] Ticktin, M. (2014) ‘Transnational Humanitarianism’, Annual Review of Anthropology 43(1), 273–89.

[41] Verna, G. (2007) “Le comportement des ONG engagées dans l'aide humanitaire”, Anthropologie et Sociétés 31(2): 25–44.

[42] Weber, M. (1995) Économie et société 1: Les catégories de la sociologie . Paris: Plon.

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