COVID-19 “Humanitarianism”

Mariya Y. Omelicheva, Ph.D. (2007) is Professor of Strategy at National War College, National Defense University. She is the author of Webs of Corruption: Trafficking-Terrorism Nexus in Central Asia (Columbia University Press, 2019, with Lawrence Markowitz), Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternate Strategies (University Press of Kentucky, 2015) and Counterterrorism Policies in Central Asia (Routledge, 2011) and over a hundred peer-reviewed articles. Brittnee Carter, Ph.D. (2017) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. She has published many articles in the areas of international security, foreign policy, and terrorism studies.

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Introduction

 1 Why Understanding States’ Motives for Humanitarian Assistance Is Important?

 2 Argument in a Nutshell

 3 Methods and Evidence

 4 Overview of the Book



1 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 Regime



2 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 Assistance



3 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 Allocations



4 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 Assistance



5 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 Assistance



Conclusion

 1 Overview of Findings

 2 Ways Forward

 3 Lessons for the Traditional Donors



References

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