Disaster relief has increasingly become part of the justification for increased U.S. troop deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.
Disaster Militarism: Rethinking U.S. Relief in the Asia-Pacific
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Natural Disaster Relief
Back From the Brink: A City in Ruins Looks to the Future
As Japan’s government gets set to expand a nuclear evacuation area, the mayor of a city inside the radioactive zone speaks about his fears.
After the Deluge
After suffering through months of intense battles between Islamist militants and the army, the impoverished northwestern region of Pakistan must now endure the severe ramifications of a fierce wave of flooding in September that has so far claimed close to 2,000 lives, wiped out whole villages, and left innocent families clinging to the tops of their submerged homes hoping to be rescued.