Table Of ContentAcknowledgementsList of Figures, Tables and MapsIntroduction 1 Why Understanding States' Motives for Humanitarian Assistance Is Important? 2 Argument in a Nutshell 3 Methods and Evidence 4 Overview of the Book1 Critical Geopolitics Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance 1 Taking the Stock of Knowledge on Humanitarian Aid 2 Humanitarianism as a Geopolitical Discourse: Alternative Geopolitical Logics for Humanitarian Assistance 3 Contestations Over the Conceptual Architecture of Global Humanitarian Regime2 China's COVID-19 Humanitarianism: an Aid Model Rooted in the State-Centered Logic of Development Assistance 1 Background on China's Humanitarianism 2 Elements of China's Geopolitical Logic about Humanitarian Assistance 3 Where Did China Send Its COVID-19 Aid and Why 4 Statistical Analysis of China's COVID-19 Assistance3 Russia's COVID-19 Aid Opportunism 1 Historical Background on Russia's Humanitarian Aid 2 The Elements of Russia's Geopolitical Logic for Humanitarian Aid 3 Analysis of Russia's COVID-19 Allocations4 Geopolitical, Geoeconomic, and Humanitarian Considerations for COVID-19 Assistance by the United States 1 Background on American Humanitarian Assistance 2 The Universalizing Logic of the US Humanitarian Assistance 3 US COVID-19 Assistance 4 Analysis of US Covid-19 Assistance5 Global Geopolitics of Vaccine Distribution 1 Vaccine Humanitarianism 2 China's COVID-19 Vaccine Assistance 3 Russia's COVID-19 Vaccine Assistance 4 US COVID-19 Vaccine AssistanceConclusion 1 Overview of Findings 2 Ways Forward 3 Lessons for the Traditional DonorsReferencesIndex
SynopsisWhat motivates states to assist other countries in need? Focusing on Chinese, Russian, and American decisions about COVID-19 aid, this book illuminates the role of historically contingent ideas in donors' decisions. Drawing on the theoretical insights of the critical geopolitics tradition, it advances and tests explanations for aid-related decisions on a novel global dataset of COVID-19 aid. Rigorously theorized, meticulously researched, and accessibly written, this book illuminates the ways in which China and Russia seek to reshape the humanitarian field consistent with their geopolitical visions. Their competition with the US over approaches to aid has weakened the integrity of the humanitarian system., What motivates states to assist other countries in need? Focusing on Chinese, Russian, and American decisions about COVID-19 aid, this book illuminates the role of historically contingent ideas in donors' decisions. Drawing on the theoretical insights of the critical geopolitics tradition, it advances and tests explanations for aid-related decisions on a novel global dataset of COVID-19 aid. Rigorously theorized, meticulously researched, and accessibly written, this book illuminates the ways in which China and Russia seek to reshape the humanitarian field consistent with their geopolitical visions. Their competition with the US over approaches to aid has weakened the integrity of humanitarian system., What motivates states to assist other countries in need? Focusing on Chinese, Russian, and American decisions about COVID-19 aid, this book illuminates the role of ideas in donors' decisions, and how competition over alternative approaches to aid undermines humanitarian assistance.