Dr Ilan Kelman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO). His main research and application interests are disaster diplomacy and sustainability for island communities.

This is the first book on disaster diplomacy. Disaster-politics interactions have been studied for decades, but usually from a specific political framing, covering a specific geographical area, or from a specific disaster framing. In addition, plenty of quantitative work has been completed, yet the data limitations are rarely admitted openly or thoroughly analyzed. Few publications bring together the topics of disasters and politics in terms of a disaster diplomacy framework, yielding a grounded, qualitative, scientific point of view on the topic.

1. The Origins of Disaster Diplomacy 2. Moving Forward with Disaster Diplomacy 3. Hypotheses and Research Questions 4. Empirical Evidence: Case Studies 5. Analyses and Typologies for Disaster Diplomacy 6. Explaining Disaster Diplomacy's Successes 7. Explaining Disaster Diplomacy's Failures 8. Spin-Offs 9. Limitations 10. Principal Lessons for Application 11. Filling in the Gaps 12. The Future of Disaster Diplomacy