Alexander X Betts

La Verdad Sobre Las Malvinas: Mi Tierra Natal

Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime

States located near crisis zones are most likely to see an influx of people fleeing from manmade disasters; African states, for instance, are forced to accommodate and adjust to refugees more often than do European states far away from sites of upheaval. Geography dictates that states least able to ...

Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice

A significant amount of International Relations scholarship examines the role of international norms in world politics. Existing work, though, focuses mainly on how these norms emerge and the process by which governments sign and ratify them. In conventional accounts, the story ends there. Yet, this...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Global Institutions)

This revised and expandedsecond 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 ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Global Institutions) 2nd (second) Edition by Betts, Alexander, Loescher, Gil, Milner, James published by Routledge (2012)

The Experience of a Confederate Chaplain

The book, Civil War memoir, written in diary format, provides some good insights into war from a Confederate chaplain’s unique point of view. Betts preferred to call the war a revolution rather than a civil war, and he explains why. Because the book was a day-to-day journal, many of the entries are ...

Forced Migration and Global Politics

Using real-world examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics systematically applies International Relations theory to explore the international politics of forced migration. * Provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the main debates and concepts in i...

Refugees in International Relations

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 St...

Global Migration Governance

Unlike many other trans-boundary policy areas, international migration lacks coherent global governance. There is no UN migration organization and states have signed relatively few multilateral treaties on migration. Instead sovereign states generally decide their own immigration policies. However, ...