Catastrophic Diplomacy US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century【電子書籍】[ Julia F. Irwin ]

＜p＞＜em＞Catastrophic Diplomacy＜/em＞ offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the mid-1970s, it examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world. Focusing on US responses to sudden disasters caused by earthquakes, tropical storms, and floodsーcrises commonly known as “natural disasters”ーhistorian Julia F. Irwin highlights the complex and messy politics of emergency humanitarian relief.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Deftly weaving together diplomatic, environmental, military, and humanitarian histories, Irwin tracks the rise of US disaster aid as a tool of foreign policy, showing how and why the US foreign policy establishment first began contributing aid to survivors of international catastrophes. While the book focuses mainly on bilateral assistance effort．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る