id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cjers-3783	Omelicheva, Mariya	A “Good” Samaritan? The Geopolitics of Russia’s Covid-19 Assistance	2023	28	.pdf	application/pdf	11659	645	43	The scholarship on humanitarian aid (the majority of which has been conducted on traditional donors such as the US) has found the ongoing importance of need as a driver for humanitarian aid decisions but also pointed out other motives, including countries’ self-interest for explaining their aid allocations (Boussalis and Caryn Peiffer 2011; Kevlihan, DeRouen, and Biglasier 2014). Moscow's use of humanitarian aid for geopolitical benefits has not been a critical disruptor in the humanitarian system by itself; however, jointly with other instruments of foreign policy, Russia's approaches to foreign assistance can be detrimental to the future of the international humanitarian system.	cache/cjers-3783.pdf	txt/cjers-3783.txt