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The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction

Contrasting Approaches to Disasters and Emergencies

  • Fulvio Attinà
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Fulvio Attinà
      Pages 1-18

  3. Theories and Approaches

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-19
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    2. Disaster and Emergency Policies at the International and Global System Levels
      Fulvio Attinà
      Pages 21-41
    3. Conceptualizing and Confronting Disasters: A Panorama of Social Science Research and International Policies
      Sandrine Revet
      Pages 42-56
    4. Theoretical Departures to Disasters and Emergencies
      Mika Aaltola
      Pages 57-75
    5. The Nexus between Security, Development and Humanitarianism: A Critical Appraisal of Multi-dimensional Peace Missions
      Maria Raquel Freire, Paula Duarte Lopes, Daniela Nascimento
      Pages 76-92
    6. Risk Societies in World Politics: Overcoming Disasters Together
      Nora Vanaga
      Pages 93-109

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 111-111
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    2. Catastrophe and Containment: A Critical Analysis of the US Response to the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
      Annica Moore
      Pages 113-132
    3. United Nations–European Union Cooperation in Aid, Relief and Reconstruction — The Haiti Case
      Claudia Morsut, Maite J. Iturre
      Pages 133-150
    4. The Politics of Catastrophe: Coping with ‘Humanitarianism’ in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka
      Mara Benadusi
      Pages 151-172
    5. The UN and Genocide: A Comparative Analysis of Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia
      Sabrina Stein
      Pages 173-190
    6. Humanitarian NGOs in Peace Building and Reconstruction Operations
      Daniela Irrera
      Pages 191-210
    7. ‘TragiCIMICal’: An Attempt at Civil and Military Cooperation in Lebanon
      Rosario F. Sapienza
      Pages 211-235

  5. Concluding Remarks

    1. Concluding Remarks
      Fulvio Attinà
      Pages 236-239
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 240-265
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About this book

Introduction

Disaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains how political science enriches the contribution of the social sciences to the study of disaster relief, aid and reconstruction following the major disaster events, both natural and man-made, of recent times.

Keywords

Earthquake Europe political science Tsunami

Editors and affiliations

  • Fulvio Attinà
    • 1
  1. 1.University of CataniaItaly

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