Refugees in International Relations

Author:   Alexander Betts (Hedley Bull Research Fellow, University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow, Stanford University) ,  Gil Loescher (Visiting Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor, University of Notre Dame)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199580743


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   04 November 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Refugees lie at the heart of world politics. The causes and consequences of, and responses to, human displacement are intertwined with many of the core concerns of International Relations. Yet, scholars of International Relations have generally bypassed the study of refugees, and Forced Migration Studies has generally bypassed insights from International Relations. This volume therefore represents an attempt to bridge the divide between these disciplines, and to place refugees within the mainstream of International Relations. Drawing together the work and ideas of a combination of the world's leading and emerging International Relations scholars, the volume considers what ideas from International Relations can offer our understanding of the international politics of forced migration. The insights draw from across the theoretical spectrum of International Relations from realism to critical theory to feminism, covering issues including international cooperation, security, and the international political economy. They engage with some of the most challenging political and practical questions in contemporary forced migration, including peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, and statebuilding. The result is a set of highly original chapters, yielding not only new concepts of wider relevance to International Relations but also insights for academics, policy-makers, and practitioners working on forced migration in particular and humanitarianism in general.

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Author:   Alexander Betts (Hedley Bull Research Fellow, University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow, Stanford University) ,  Gil Loescher (Visiting Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor, University of Notre Dame)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9780199580743


ISBN 10:   019958074
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   04 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher: Introduction: Refugees in IR 1: Jack Snyder: Realism, Refugees, and Strategies of Humanitarianism 2: Alexander Betts: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime 3: Andrew Hurrell: Refugees, International Society, and Global Order 4: Michael Barnett: Humanitarianism, Paternalism, and the UNHCR 5: Patricia Owens: Beyond 'Bare Life': Refugees and the 'Right to Have Rights' 6: Chris Brown: The Only Thinkable Figure? Ethical and Normative Approaches to Refugees in International Relations 7: Jennifer Hyndman: Feminist Geopolitics Meets Refugee Studies 8: Sophia Benz and Andreas Hasenclever: 'Global' Governance of Forced Migration 9: Adam Roberts: Refugees and Military Intervention 10: Anne Hammerstad: UNHCR and the Securitisation of Forced Migration 11: James Milner: Refugees, Peacebuilding, and the Regional Dynamics of Conflict 12: Dominik Zaum: Post-conflict Statebuilding and Forced Migration 13: Sarah Collinson: Forced Migration in the International Political Economy Index

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Refugees in International Relations shows that strategic and institutional thinking are essential to understand the causes of forced migration, its consequences, and appropriate policy responses. It has a valuable and important central theme: refugee issues are inherently political. Robert O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University


Refugees in International Relations shows that strategic and institutional thinking are essential to understand the causes of forced migration, its consequences, and appropriate policy responses. It has a valuable and important central theme: refugee issues are inherently political. * Robert O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University *


Author Information

Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he is also Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance Project. His research focuses on the international politics of migration and refugee protection, and his recent books include Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, Routledge 2008). He has previously worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and has held positions at Princeton University, LSE, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, UNHCR, and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous works on refugees, human rights, and conflict and security, most recently including UNHCR in World Politics: A Perilous Path (Oxford University Press, 2001), UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2008), and Protracted Refugee Situations: Politics, Human Rights and Security Dimensions (United Nations University Press, 2008).

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