Acknowledgements

This volume is a result of a two-year project between the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and the National Institute of Emergency Management at the Chinese Academy of Governance. We wish to express our appreciation to The Asia Foundation for their organizations and support of the project and the Office of the U.S.Foreign Disaster Assistance of the United States Agency for International Development for its funding.

We are also grateful for our collaboration over the years with Arj en Boin, Eric Stern, and Bengt Sundelius, whose development and use of case studies for crisis management research have greatly benefited our own efforts.

Finally, original source materials and portions of each case were collected and produced by eight graduate students as part of the transboundary crisis management research project at the Moynihan Institute of Syracuse University.They include:Kathy Allison, Cecile Batchelor, Chiara Cruciano, Chris DeMure, Ruthanna Hawkins, Michelle Hill, Steve March, and Jessica Tevebaugh.We thank these individuals for their hard work and insights.