UNHCR and World Politics A Perilous Path

Name: UNHCR and World Politics A Perilous Path
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ISBN: 9780199246915

ISBN-10: 0199246912

ISBN-13: 9780199246915

Edition: 2001

Authors: Gil Loescher

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Over fifty years ago governments established the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to protect the world's refugees. The UNHCR was created to be a human rights and advocacy organization. But governments also created the agency to promote regional and international stability and to serve the interests of states. Consequently, the UNHCR has always trod a perilous path between its mandate to protect refugees and asylum seekers and the demands placed upon it by states to be a relevant actor in world politics. This is the first independent history of the UNHCR. Gil Loescher, one of the world's leading experts on refugee affairs, draws upon decades of personal…

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List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 446
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



The Unhcr And World Politics


Other Books by the Author


The Unhcr and World Politics


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations



The Unhcr at 50: State Pressures and Institutional Autonomy



International Recognition of Refugees



The Cold War Origins of the Unhcr Under Gerrit Jan Van Heuven Goedhart



The Emerging Independence of the Unhcr Under Auguste Lindt



'The Good Offices' and Expansion into Africa Under Felix Schnyder



The Global Expansion of the Unhcr Under Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan



The New Cold War and the Unhcr Under Poul Hartling



The Unhcr's 'New Look', Financial Crisis, and Collapse of Morale Under Jean-Pierre Hocke and Thorvald Stoltenberg



The Post-Cold War Era and the Unhcr Under Sadako Ogata



Toward the Future: The Unhcr in the Twenty-First Century


Bibliography


Index