Right to Flee - Refugees, States, and the Construction of International Cooperation

This book examines the origins and evolution of refugee protection over the past four centuries.

List of contents

1. Introduction: a right to flee; 2. Structures, agency, and refugee protection; 3. Refugees and the emergence of international society; 4. The nineteenth century: a laissez-faire regime; 5. The interwar refugee regime and the failure of international cooperation; 6. American leadership and the emergence of the postwar regime; 7. The norm entrepreneurship of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 8. The non-entrée regime; 9. Refugees and state cooperation in international society.

About the author

Phil Orchard is a Lecturer in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland and a Research Associate with the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and previously worked as the Assistant to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons. His research focuses on international efforts to provide institutional and legal forms of protection to civilians and forced migrants, and his work has been published in Global Governance, International Affairs, and the Review of International Studies.

Summary

Why do states protect refugees even if it may appear to be against their interests? This book argues that both interests and collectively held normative understandings are critical for understanding how state practices in refugee protection have emerged and changed from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Orchard, Phil (University of Queensland) Orchard, Orchard Phil
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107076259
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07625-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, General & world history, Comparative Politics, Human rights, civil rights, International humanitarian law, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum