Disasters Without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters by John Hannigan (Book Review).

Abstract

Natural disasters have social and economic impact in the affected country but measuring them is difficult. The book titled “Disasters without Borders: The International politics of natural disasters” by John Hannigan is divided into nine chapters:

(i) the disasters politics nexus;

(ii) the global policy field of natural disasters;

(iii) the kindness of strangers;

(iv) a safer world?;

(v) climate of concern;

(vi) disasters politics as game playing;

(vii) mass media and the politics of disasters;

(viii) disasters politics: a discursive approach;

(ix) conclusion.

This book is a retrospective multi-disciplinary analysis of the impact of natural disasters from a political, institutional, sociological, technological, historical, and economical perspective.

Keywords: Natural Disaster

JEL Classification: Y90