Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective
The United States and China, as the largest developed country and the largest developing country in the world, respectively, have their own overt and covert influences on the world. This article discusses the foreign responses when the US was hit by the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Chi...
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| author | Wei, J. Zhao, D. Marinova, Dora |
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| description | The United States and China, as the largest developed country and the largest developing country in the world, respectively, have their own overt and covert influences on the world. This article discusses the foreign responses when the US was hit by the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and China by the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. By using a three-stage process to describe disaster aid decisions, it was found that developed countries were more likely to grant disaster aid, but the scale of their assistance was not the largest. Evidence showed that countries were more likely to offer assistance if they were geographically located closer to the affected areas but this was not the case in decisions made on the type and amount of aid provided. Assistance from European countries, on the other hand, largely showed a form of cosmopolitan humanitarianism. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-228262017-09-13T13:57:44Z Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective Wei, J. Zhao, D. Marinova, Dora The United States and China, as the largest developed country and the largest developing country in the world, respectively, have their own overt and covert influences on the world. This article discusses the foreign responses when the US was hit by the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and China by the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. By using a three-stage process to describe disaster aid decisions, it was found that developed countries were more likely to grant disaster aid, but the scale of their assistance was not the largest. Evidence showed that countries were more likely to offer assistance if they were geographically located closer to the affected areas but this was not the case in decisions made on the type and amount of aid provided. Assistance from European countries, on the other hand, largely showed a form of cosmopolitan humanitarianism. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22826 10.1353/chn.2013.0014 East Asian Institute fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wei, J. Zhao, D. Marinova, Dora Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective |
| title | Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective |
| title_full | Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective |
| title_short | Disaster Relief Drivers: China and the US in Comparative Perspective |
| title_sort | disaster relief drivers: china and the us in comparative perspective |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22826 |