Congratulations to Agnieszka Sobocinska for the publication of Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The book “is a fascinating and compelling history of voluntary aid work. Sobocinska shows how young, idealistic ordinary volunteers not only legitimated humanitarian intervention in a world after empire, but through their naïve presence, also prompted neocolonialist critiques of development. An essential read for anyone interested in how the global aid system works.”