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Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia book cover

1st Edition

Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia

Edited By Alistair D.B. Cook, Lina Gong, Ian Holliday Copyright 2027
114 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a timely and accessible exploration of how humanitarian work is changing across one of the world's most diverse and crisis-affected regions. Set against a backdrop of shrinking global aid budgets, growing humanitarian need, and weakening of long-standing Western leadership,  Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia  brings Asian perspectives to the centre of debates about the... Read more

1. Humanitarian policy and action in Asia: analysing challenges, exploring opportunities

Alistair D. B. Cook, Lina Gong and Ian Holliday

 

2. Humanitarianism and the fourth industrial revolution: saving which lives?

Martin Searle

 

3. Missing targets: reforming disaster policy in Southeast Asia

Alistair D. B. Cook, Jonatan Lassa and Mely Caballero-Anthony

 

4. Re-coupling security and rights in humanitarian engagement in South Asia: the example of Afghanistan

Junli Lim and Elisabeth Wickeri

 

5. China “striving for achievement” in the humanitarian space?

Lina Gong

 

6. South-South humanitarianism: a collaborative network of Chinese non-governmental organizations responding to the 2015 Nepal earthquake

Qibin Lu, Yuan Zhang, Lina Gong, Qiang Zhang, Shiling Xu and Qiuyu Dong

 

7. Humanitarian engagement with Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup

Ian Holliday, Aung Kaung Myat and Alistair D. B. Cook

Biography

Alistair D. B. Cook is Coordinator of the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Lina Gong is Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China.

Ian Holliday is Registrar at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses chiefly on politics and governance in Myanmar.

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