Disaster Politics

What are we to make of these efforts at multinational and multi-actor governance? Are we witnessing the inception of a global disaster risk reduction regime?

Contrary to popular wisdom, people tend not to panic in emergencies. Instead, we seek information. It helps us overcome our initial …

This paper provides evidence that a country’s economy becomes more contract intensive, fatalities from natural disasters are likely to decrease.

It’s been six days since Hurricane Harvey stopped dumping rain. There’s just one problem: We’re low on mops. And bleach. …

This article examines the structure and antecedents of two networks facilitated by the microblogging platform Twitter operating in the policy domain of emergency management.

What are the effects of institutional differences around the disaster declaration process?

An annotated syllabus for a graduate seminar on the global politics of disasters.

A review and annotated bibligraphy of the major literature on disaster diplomacy.

Given the increasing prevalence of large-scale natural disasters, why has progress implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) been so varied and so spotty?

This article explores the differing outcomes with respect to the separatist conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka that followed the 2004 tsunami.

This case study focuses on a December 2003 earthquake that devastated the ancient Iranian city of Bam, killing as many as 30,000 people. The case explores the politics associated with foreign aid and reconstruction in the aftermath of a natural disaster.