Understanding Humanitarian Access Obstruction During Armed Conflict
Journal: International Studies Quarterly
Year: 2025

Abstract What explains how and why international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) sometimes succeed, and sometimes fall short, in their efforts to negotiate unimpeded access during armed conflicts to implement humanitarian relief programs? This article presents a plausibility probe of a theory to answer this question. According to this explanation, humanitarian access obstruction results from the interaction between one factor that is structural (the level of governments' security dependence on