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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.

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List of Tables and Figures List of Acronyms Note on the Contributors Preface Introduction PART I: THEORIES AND APPROACHES Humanitarian and Emergency Policies and the Change of the Global Political System; F.Attinà Disasters: A Short History of Social Science and World Policy Perspectives; S.Revet Theoretical Departures to Disasters and Emergencies; M.Aaltola The Nexus between Security, Development and Humanitarianism: A Critical Appraisal to Multidimensional Peace Missions; M.R.Freire , P.D.Lopes & D.Nascimento Risk Societies in World Politics: Overcoming Disasters Together; N.Vanaga PART II: CASE STUDIES Catastrophe and Containment - A Critical Analysis of the U.S. Response to the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti Annica Moore The United Nations - European Union Co-operation in Aid, Relief and Reconstruction. The Haiti Case; C.Morsut & M.Iturre The Politics of Disaster. Coping with ´Humanitarianism´ in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka; M.Benadusi The UN and Genocide: A Comparative Analysis of Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia; S.Stein Humanitarian NGOs in Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Operations; D.Irrera ´TragiCIMICal´: An Attempt at Civil and Military Cooperation in Lebanon; R.F.Sapienza Concluding Remarks References

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MIKA AALTOLA Programme Director of the ´Global Security´ research programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland MARA BENADUSI Anthropologist, researcher and lecturer at the University of Catania in the Faculty of Political Sciences, Italy PAULA DUARTE LOPES Assistant Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal MARIA RAQUEL FREIRE Assistant Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies University of Coimbra, Portugal DANIELA IRRERA Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Catania, Italy MAITE J. ITURRE Lecturer at the Administration and Political Sciences Department of the University of the Basque Country, Spain ANNICA MOORE Researcher in International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland and Senior Advisor at the Finnish University Partnership for International Development, Finland CLAUDIA MORSUT Research Scientist at the International Research Institute of Stavanger and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of Stavanger, Norway DANIELA NASCIMENTO Assistant Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal SANDRINE REVET Anthropologist and research fellow at the Centre d´Etudes et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, France ROSARIO SAPIENZA Anthropologist with more than 15 years of experience in the field of social sciences SABRINA STEIN Graduate student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA NORA VANAGA Doctoral student at the University of Latvia, Latvia

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