FSI researchers strive to understand how countries relate to one another, and what policies are needed to achieve global stability and prosperity. International relations experts focus on the challenging U.S.-Russian relationship, the alliance between the U.S. and Japan and the limitations of America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
Foreign aid is also examined by scholars trying to understand whether money earmarked for health improvements reaches those who need it most. And FSI’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center has published on the need for strong South Korean leadership in dealing with its northern neighbor.
FSI researchers also look at the citizens who drive international relations, studying the effects of migration and how borders shape people’s lives. Meanwhile FSI students are very much involved in this area, working with the United Nations in Ethiopia to rethink refugee communities.
Trade is also a key component of international relations, with FSI approaching the topic from a slew of angles and states. The economy of trade is rife for study, with an APARC event on the implications of more open trade policies in Japan, and FSI researchers making sense of who would benefit from a free trade zone between the European Union and the United States.
Refugees in International Relations
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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, Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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. Refugees in International Relations 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, Refugees in International Relations 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.
Contents:
- "Refugees in International Relations", Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher
- "Realism, Refugees, and Strategies of Humanitarianism", Jack Snyder
- "International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime", Alexander Betts
- "Refugees, International Society, and Global Order", Andrew Hurrell
- "Humanitarianism, Paternalism, and the UNHCR", Michael Barnett
- "Beyond 'Bare Life': Refugees and the 'Right to Have Rights'", Patricia Owens
- "The Only Thinkable Figure? Ethical and Normative Approaches to Refugees in International Relations", Chris Brown
- "Feminist Geopolitics Meets Refugee Studies", Jennifer Hyndman
- "'Global' Governance of Forced Migration", Sophia Benz and Andreas Hasenclever
- "Refugees and Military Intervention", Adam Roberts
- "UNHCR and the Securitization of Forced Migration", Anne Hammerstad
- "Refugees, Peacebuilding, and the Regional Dynamics of Conflict", James Milner
- "Post-conflict Statebuilding and Forced Migration", Dominik Zaum
- "Forced Migration in the International Political Economy", Sarah Collinson
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