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  • Refugees

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gil Loescher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their home countries to escape war, natural disasters, and cultural and political oppression. Unfortunately, even today, the international community struggles to provide an adequate response to this vast population in need. This Very Short Introduction covers ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Protracted Refugee Situations

    Domestic and International Security Implications

    by Gil Loescher ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    Protracted refugee populations not only constitute over 70% of the world's refugees but are also a principal source of many of the irregular movements of people around the world today. The long-term presence of refugee populations in much of the developing world has come to be seen by many host states in these regions as a source of insecurity.In response, host governments have enacted policies of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    Refugees

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gil Loescher ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 16 min

    Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their home countries to escape war, natural disasters, and cultural and political oppression. Unfortunately, even today, the international community struggles to provide an adequate response to this vast population in need.This Very Short Introduction covers a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Problems of Protection

    The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights

    Edited by Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney, Gil Loescher ...
    First Published in 2003. Of all the humanitarian impulses in world politics today, one of the most widely recognized is the need to protect refugees. However, as The Problems of Protection explores, what on the surface appears to be a simple proposition can quickly become complex and controversial. This complexity results in troubling variation in how we respond to our obligation to protect ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Refugees in International Relations

    Edited by Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher ...
    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 ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Refugees in International Relations

    Edited by Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher ...
    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 ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

    Edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, Nando Sigona ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

    The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection

    by Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher, James Milner ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes:up to date coverage of the UNHCR’s most recent history and policy developmentsevaluation of new thinking on issues such ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

    Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. At the same time, in some respects the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Fragile States

    by Lothar Brock, Hans-Henrik Holm, Georg Sorenson, Michael Stohl ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'. This group of low-income countries are often trapped in cycles of conflict and poverty, which make them acutely vulnerable to a range of shocks and crises.This engaging book defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states, examining their characteristics in relation to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Global Public Governance

    Toward World Government?

    by Sorpong Peou ...
    Global Public Governance is a text written for students, scholars and lay people interested in learning about this global system, which emerged and has evolved in response to global challenges that no one actor can effectively address. Drawing on what has been published over the last several decades, this text highlights the importance of states and nonstate actors seeking to provide global public ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD