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OverviewThe Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor. It follows the refugee agency through some of the past two decades' major conflict-induced humanitarian emergencies: in northern Iraq (1991), Bosnia (1991-95), eastern Zaire (1994-96), Kosovo (1998-99), Afghanistan (2001-) and Iraq (2003-). It analyses UNHCR's momentous transformation from a small, timid legal protection agency to the world's foremost humanitarian actor playing a central role in the international response to the many wars of the tumultuous last decade of the 20th century. Then, as the 21st century set in, the agency's political prominence waned. It remains a major humanitarian actor, whose budgets and staffing levels continue to rise. But the polarised post-9/11 period and a worsening protection climate for refugees and asylum seekers spurred UNHCR to abandon its claim to be a global security actor and return to a more modest, quietly diplomatic role.The rise of UNHCR as a global security actor is placed within the context of the dramatic shift in perceptions of national and international security after the end of the Cold War. The Cold War superpower struggle encouraged a narrow strategic-military understanding of security. In the more fluid and unpredictable post-Cold War environment, a range of new issues were introduced to states' security agendas. Prominent among these were the perceived threats posed by refugees and asylum seekers to international security, state stability, and societal cohesion. This book investigates UNHCR's response to this new international environment; adopting, adapting, and finally abandoning a security discourse on the refugee problem. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anne Hammerstad (Lecturer in International Relations, School of Politics and IR, Lecturer in International Relations, School of Politics and IR, University of Kent)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.702kg ISBN: 9780199213085ISBN 10: 0199213089 Pages: 356 Publication Date: 20 February 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1: Introduction: The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor Part I: Forced Migration and Security 2: From Explaining to Constructing Security 3: Victims or Threats: Placing Displacement on Three Security Agenda Part II: An Intellectual History of UNHCR 4: Institutional and International Developments 5: The 1950s to 1970s: Timidity and Restraint In UNHCR's Discourse 6: The 1980s: A Political Turn 7: The 1990s: Adopting and Adapting a Security Discourse 8: The 2000s and Beyond: Return of a Protection Discourse Part III: An Actor or Re-Actor in International Refugee Politics? 9: UNHCR's Rise as a Global Security Actor: Northern Iraq, 1991 10: A Humanitarian Star: Lead Agency in Bosnia, 1991-1995 11: Protection Disaster in Eastern Zaire, 1994-96 12: How Success Became Failure: The Kosovo Crisis, 1998-99 13: Challenges of Protection After 9/11 14: Repatriating Afghan Refugees 15: Conclusion: The Ongoing Quest for Power, Independence and RelevanceReviewsThe book provides a detailed consideration and review of the evolution of UNHCRs security discourse from its origins to date through examination of its statute and materials prepared for external audiences as well as submissions to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and the Executive Committee of the High Commissioners Programme. Tendayi Sengwe, The South African Journal of International Affairs Author InformationDr Anne Hammerstad was an ESRC/RCUK Global Uncertainties Fellow from 2009 to 2012, and has also won grants from the British Academy, Europaeum and the Norwegian Fritt Ord foundation. Her DPhil thesis from Oxford University won the BISA Thesis Prize and Winchester Prize in 2003. She has more than a decade's experience in researching and writing about displacement, conflict and security, and about UNHCR and humanitarian politics. She is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent and a Research Associate of the South African Institute of International Affairs. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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