Hollis Simon
Assistant Professor, Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART), Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University, Sweden.
Disasters. 2018 Jan;42(1):19-40. doi: 10.1111/disa.12231. Epub 2017 Apr 28.
International relations and disaster studies have much to gain by thinking critically about their respective theoretical and epistemological assumptions. Yet, few studies to date have sought to assess the potential value of linking these two disciplines. This paper begins to address this shortfall by examining the relationship between disasters and conflict as a research sphere that intersects international relations and disaster studies. Through an analysis of whether or not disasters contribute to intra-national and international conflict, this paper not only provides a review of the state of the art, but also serves to invite scholars to reflect on related concepts from other fields to strengthen their own approaches to the study of disasters in an international setting. An evaluation of the conceptual and theoretical contributions of each subject area provides useful heuristics for the development of disaster-conflict scholarship and encourages alternative modes of knowledge production through interdisciplinarity.
国际关系和灾害研究若能批判性地思考各自的理论和认识论假设，将大有裨益。然而，迄今为止，很少有研究试图评估将这两个学科联系起来的潜在价值。本文通过考察灾害与冲突之间的关系，作为一个横跨国际关系和灾害研究的研究领域，来弥补这一不足。通过分析灾害是否会导致国内和国际冲突，本文不仅对现有研究状况进行了综述，还促使学者们反思其他领域的相关概念，以加强他们在国际背景下研究灾害的方法。对每个学科领域的概念和理论贡献进行评估，为灾害冲突学术研究的发展提供了有益的启发，并鼓励通过跨学科产生知识的替代模式。
