Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Edited by Andrew Lakoff

Chapters include: Michele Landis Dauber (Stanford Law School), "The Real Third Rail of American Politics;" Richard V. Ericson (University of Toronto) and Aaron Doyle (Carleton University), "Catastrophic Risk, Insurance and Government;" Patrick S. Roberts (Virginia Tech), "The Evolution of National Disaster Organizations in the U.S.;" Stephen J. Collier (The New School) and Andrew Lakoff, "Infrastructure and Vulnerability: Governing Risk outside of the State"

Related Subjects

• International Affairs

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

About the Author

Andrew Lakoff is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry and coeditor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. His current research concerns the intersection between global health and national security expertise as it pertains to biological preparedness.

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