Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

The 2013 Human Development Report – "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World" – examines the profound shift in global dynamics driven by the fast-rising new powers of the developing world and its long-term implications for human developmentChina has already overtaken Japan as the world's second biggest economy while lifting hundreds of millions of its people out of poverty India is reshaping its future with new entrepreneurial creativity and social policy innovation Brazil is lifting its living standards through expanding international relationships and antipoverty programs that are emulated worldwideBut the "Rise of the South" analyzed in the Report is a much larger phenomenon: Turkey, Mexico, Thailand, South Africa, Indonesia and many other developing nations are also becoming leading actors on the world stage

Human Development Report 2013. The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World

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Economics of natural resources and the environment

Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism

The modern refugee regime, created in the aftermath of World War II, provides protection mainly to people who flee individualized persecution or generalized violence. Subsequent to its creation, a range of new drivers of external displacement—particularly related to the interaction of environmental change, livelihood collapse, and state fragility—have emerged that fall outside the framework of the regime. In order to examine institutional responses to these people, this article develops the concept of survival migration, which describes people who have left their country of origin because of an existential threat for which they have no domestic remedy. It examines six case studies of national and international institutional responses to survival migrants from Zimbabwe, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which fall outside the 1951 Refugee Convention. Based on a conceptual model of regime stretching, the article offers an explanation for variation in the extent to which the existing globa...

Survival Migration: A New Protection Framework

Introduction1. Survival Migration2. The National Politics of International Institutions3. South Africa: The Ad Hoc Response to the Zimbabwean Influx4. Botswana: The Division of Zimbabweans into Refugees and Migrants5. Angola: The Expulsion of the Congolese6. Tanzania: The Paradoxical Response to Congolese from South Kivu7. Kenya: Humanitarian Containment and the Somalis8. Yemen: Contrasting Responses to Somalis and Ethiopians9. Improving the Refugee Protection RegimeConclusion: Implementation MattersNotes References Index -- Cornell University Press

Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement

Introduction Part 1: Historical Overview and Emergences of Key Issues 1. The Origins of International Concern for Refugees 2. UNHCR and the Cold War: 1950-1990 3. UNHCR since the end of the Cold War Part 2: Key challenges and issues facing UNHCR 4. The Key Challenges of Mandate, Funding and Protection 5. The key issues of protracted refugee situations, IDPs and asylum 6. The Future of UNHCR in the 21st Century Conclusion

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) : the politics and practice of refugee protection into the twenty-first century

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. International Relations Theories 2. Sovereignty and the State System 3. Security 4. International Cooperation 5. Global Governance 6. North-South Relations and the International Political Economy 7. Globalization 8. Regionalism Bibliography Index

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Alexander Betts

Papers

Survival Migration: A New Protection Framework

Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) : the politics and practice of refugee protection into the twenty-first century

Forced Migration and Global Politics

Book Review Symposium on "Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement"