Machine learning

Leverage (statistics)

Humanitarian aid

Engineering

Power (physics)

Telecommunications

Physics

Business

Humanitarian Logistics

Politics

Political science

Quantum mechanics

Core (optical fiber)

Computer science

Militarism

Industrial organization

Antipode

While critical authors have interrogated the roots of business logistics, this paper extends the analysis and contributes to a larger critique of the cohering field of Humanitarian Logistics ( HL ), noting the overlap in the logistical cartographies of militarism and humanitarianism. The focus is on the UAE 's expanding logistics space into the Horn of Africa and the production of specialised HL zones like Dubai International Humanitarian City ( DIHC ). The article makes three core arguments. First, a logistics lens enables us to expand the study of aid beyond immediate conflict zones, into more distant spaces often constructed as “stable”. Second, the placement of logistics at the core of aid delivery has been a key mechanism for inserting market imperatives into humanitarian activities. Third, this gives countries outside the advanced core, such as the UAE , power to leverage and expand their logistics space for multiple purposes, in war making, aid, and commercial activities.

Circulating Power: Humanitarian Logistics, Militarism, and the United Arab Emirates