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Ilan Kelman is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London. His research interest is linking risk, resilience and global health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. His recent publications include “Catastrophe and Conflict: Disaster Diplomacy and Its Foreign Policy Implications,” Brill Research Perspectives in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, 1:1 (2016), 1-76. doi:10.1163/24056006-12340001. For further details, see http://www.ilankelman.org
This essay provides a brief look at the Philippines experience as a means of highlighting the interplay between disaster risk reduction and politics with regard to disaster diplomacy across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions and beyond.
