The UNHCR and World Politics: A Perilous Path - Softcover

Loescher, Gil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199246912 ISBN 13: 9780199246915

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Over fifty years ago, governments established the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to be a human rights and advocacy organization. This is the first independent history of this highly important establishment. Gil Loescher, one of the world's leading experts on refugee affairs, draws upon decades of personal experience and research to examine the origins and evolution of the UNHCR, identifying many of the major challenges facing the organization in the years ahead. A key focus is the extent to which the evolution of the UNHCR has been framed by the crucial events of international politics during the past half century and how, in turn, the actions of the eight past High Commissioners have helped shape the course of world history. In the end, Loescher offers a series of bold policy recommendations aimed at making the agency a more effective and accountable advocate for the millions of refugees in the world today.

About this title

About the Author:

Gil Loescher is a Professor of International Relations, Department of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame.

Review:

`With the equivalent of the entire population of the United Kingdom displaced somewhere in the world, what happens to refugees now is, as Loescher convincingly argues, probably the most important current human rights debate.'
Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0199246912
• ISBN 13: 9780199246915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 446