Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-36270-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm

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 future of humanitarianism. Drawing on contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the volume examines how humanitarian policy and practice are shaped by new technologies, regional institutions, state interests, and local traditions. Case studies range from disaster management reforms in Southeast Asia and humanitarian engagement in Afghanistan and Myanmar, to China's evolving role as a humanitarian actor and the growing importance of South–South cooperation. Together, they challenge the assumption that humanitarianism is driven solely from the Global North and highlight Asia's long history of supporting crisis-affected communities. Clear, wide-ranging, and grounded in real-world experience, this book shows how a more multiplex and polycentric humanitarian system is emerging—one that places affected communities, regional voices, and local knowledge at its heart. It is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners in humanitarian studies, international development, and Asian studies. It will also appeal to policymakers and NGO professionals working in crisis response, disaster management, and regional governance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Asian Public Policy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Alistair D. B.

Gong, Lina

Holliday, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Humanitarian policy and action in Asia: analysing challenges, exploring opportunities 2. Humanitarianism and the fourth industrial revolution: saving which lives? 3. Missing targets: reforming disaster policy in Southeast Asia 4. Re-coupling security and rights in humanitarian engagement in South Asia: the example of Afghanistan 5. China “striving for achievement” in the humanitarian space? 6. South-South humanitarianism: a collaborative network of Chinese non-governmental organizations responding to the 2015 Nepal earthquake 7. Humanitarian engagement with Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup

Über Autor(innen)

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, Suzhou, China.

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