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Protection by Persuasion International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime

Betts Alexander
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801448249
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Betts Alexander

Om bidragsyterne

Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow, University of Oxford, and the coauthor of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century.

Protection by Persuasion International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime

Betts Alexander
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Betts Alexander
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
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"Protection by Persuasion provides an expert analysis of the evolving international refugee protection regime, focusing on the different and changing ways in which states and other actors have cooperated on this issue. It will be of great and equal interest to international relations theorists, refugee studies scholars, and humanitarian practitioners."

- Jeff Crisp, Head of Policy Development and Evaluation, UNHCR,

"In the exceptionally well-researched Protection by Persuasion, Alexander Betts successfully argues that the international politics of refugee protection are shaped by an impasse between developing states in the South, where most refugees first seek asylum, and the developed states in the North that provide resources for refugee protection and/or offer refugee resettlement. Betts systematically applies international relations theory to develop a compelling argument explaining the crucial role of cross-issue persuasion."

- Rey Koslowski, SUNY Albany,

"In this excellent book, Alexander Betts explains why states cooperate to protect those who flee persecution and violence and seek protection across borders. In doing so, he deepens our understanding of the modern refugee regime and international cooperation writ large."

- Stephen John Stedman, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University,

States located near crisis zones are most likely to see an influx of people fleeing from manmade disasters; African states, for instance, are forced to accommodate and adjust to refugees more often than do European states far away from sites of upheaval. Geography dictates that states least able to pay the costs associated with refugees are those most likely to have them cross their borders. Therefore, refugee protection has historically been characterized by a North-South impasse. While Southern states have had to open their borders to refugees fleeing conflict or human rights abuses in neighboring states, Northern states have had little obligation or incentive to contribute to protecting refugees in the South. In recent years, however, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has sought to foster greater international cooperation within the global refugee regime through special conferences at which Northern states are pushed to contribute to the costs of protection for refugees in the South. These initiatives, Alexander Betts finds in Protection by Persuasion, can overcome the North-South impasse and lead to significant cooperation. Betts shows that Northern states will contribute to such efforts when they recognize a substantive relationship between refugee protection in the South and their own interests in such issues as security, immigration, and trade. Highlighting the mechanisms through which UNHCR has been able to persuade Northern states that such links exist, Protection by Persuasion makes clear that refugee protection is a global concern, most effectively addressed when geographic realities are overridden by the perception of interdependence.
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Protection by Persuasion makes clear that refugee protection is a global concern, most effectively addressed when geographic realities are overridden by the perception of interdependence.
"Protection by Persuasion provides an expert analysis of the evolving international refugee protection regime, focusing on the different and changing ways in which states and other actors have cooperated on this issue. It will be of great and equal interest to international relations theorists, refugee studies scholars, and humanitarian practitioners."
Les mer
Protection by Persuasion provides an expert analysis of the evolving international refugee protection regime, focusing on the different and changing ways in which states and other actors have cooperated on this issue. It will be of great and equal interest to international relations theorists, refugee studies scholars, and humanitarian practitioners.
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"Protection by Persuasion provides an expert analysis of the evolving international refugee protection regime, focusing on the different and changing ways in which states and other actors have cooperated on this issue. It will be of great and equal interest to international relations theorists, refugee studies scholars, and humanitarian practitioners."

- Jeff Crisp, Head of Policy Development and Evaluation, UNHCR,

"In the exceptionally well-researched Protection by Persuasion, Alexander Betts successfully argues that the international politics of refugee protection are shaped by an impasse between developing states in the South, where most refugees first seek asylum, and the developed states in the North that provide resources for refugee protection and/or offer refugee resettlement. Betts systematically applies international relations theory to develop a compelling argument explaining the crucial role of cross-issue persuasion."

- Rey Koslowski, SUNY Albany,

"In this excellent book, Alexander Betts explains why states cooperate to protect those who flee persecution and violence and seek protection across borders. In doing so, he deepens our understanding of the modern refugee regime and international cooperation writ large."

- Stephen John Stedman, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University,

States located near crisis zones are most likely to see an influx of people fleeing from manmade disasters; African states, for instance, are forced to accommodate and adjust to refugees more often than do European states far away from sites of upheaval. Geography dictates that states least able to pay the costs associated with refugees are those most likely to have them cross their borders. Therefore, refugee protection has historically been characterized by a North-South impasse. While Southern states have had to open their borders to refugees fleeing conflict or human rights abuses in neighboring states, Northern states have had little obligation or incentive to contribute to protecting refugees in the South. In recent years, however, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has sought to foster greater international cooperation within the global refugee regime through special conferences at which Northern states are pushed to contribute to the costs of protection for refugees in the South. These initiatives, Alexander Betts finds in Protection by Persuasion, can overcome the North-South impasse and lead to significant cooperation. Betts shows that Northern states will contribute to such efforts when they recognize a substantive relationship between refugee protection in the South and their own interests in such issues as security, immigration, and trade. Highlighting the mechanisms through which UNHCR has been able to persuade Northern states that such links exist, Protection by Persuasion makes clear that refugee protection is a global concern, most effectively addressed when geographic realities are overridden by the perception of interdependence.
Les mer
Protection by Persuasion makes clear that refugee protection is a global concern, most effectively addressed when geographic realities are overridden by the perception of interdependence.
"Protection by Persuasion provides an expert analysis of the evolving international refugee protection regime, focusing on the different and changing ways in which states and other actors have cooperated on this issue. It will be of great and equal interest to international relations theorists, refugee studies scholars, and humanitarian practitioners."
Les mer
Protection by Persuasion provides an expert analysis of the evolving international refugee protection regime, focusing on the different and changing ways in which states and other actors have cooperated on this issue. It will be of great and equal interest to international relations theorists, refugee studies scholars, and humanitarian practitioners.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801448249
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Betts Alexander

Om bidragsyterne

Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow, University of Oxford, and the coauthor of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century.

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