Journal of International Affairs articles from January 1994

Journal of International Affairs archives from January 1994

Commentary on current refugee issues. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... On 3 November 1994, Aristide Zolberg spoke with members of the Journal of International Affairs editorial board about the current developments in the international refugee regime and its attempts to address unfolding refugee crises. Reprinted...

The international refugee regime: stretched to the limit? (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... International institutions traditionally have had difficulty addressing refugee problems, particularly during times of great disorder and structural change within world politics -- for example, during the First World War when multinational...

Displacement and human rights: current dilemmas in refugee protection. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... The refugee phenomenon is one of the most tangible manifestations of the aftermath of the Cold War. In the context of increased international migration and new political relationships, asylum-seekers present unique challenges to states. Human...

Responses of industrial countries to asylum-seekers. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... Since the mid-1980s, governments of industrial countries have viewed burgeoning requests for political asylum with increasing skepticism, and their representatives have met in many forums to discuss ways to control the flow of asylum-seekers....

The evolution of UNHCR: Mrs. Sadako Ogata, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. (Refugees and International Population Flows) (Interview)
January 1, 1994... Journal: You've said in past speeches and articles that UNHCR history, since 1951, reflects four stages of international population flows. Would you elaborate on this? Ogata: In the 1950s the world was reacting to refugee flows created...

Durable solutions in a new political era. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... One can scarcely exaggerate the Cold War's impact on the international refugee regime. Similarly, it will be difficult to exaggerate the effects of the Cold War's passing. The following essay on "durable solutions" analyzes the meaning of this...

The relief-development continuum: some notes on rethinking assistance for civilian victims of conflict. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... One of the most important debates in the donor community today centers on the relationship between development assistance and disaster relief. There is a widely-held assumption that disaster relief efforts are separate, even mutually exclusive,...

Environmental degradation and population flows. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... So-called "environmental refugees" have made their appearance in the academic literature and public discourse, accompanied by widely diverging definitions and predictions. Some scholars fear environmental degradation will produce "waves of...

Civil war in Sudan: the paradox of human rights and national sovereignty. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION For more than a quarter century the countries of the Horn of Africa have served as a revolving door for refugees. Eritreans and Ethiopians fled to Sudan and Somalia; Sudanese, to Ethiopia and Eritrea; and Somalis to...

Malawian refugee policy, international politics and the one-party regime. (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... The peace agreement signed on 4 October 1992 between the Mozambican government and the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) ended a 16-year civil war(2) that has left an estimated 1 million people dead, devastated the country's economic and...

Promoting economic self-reliance: a case study of Afghan refugee women in Pakistan. (The Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay) (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... There are approximately 18.5 million refugees in the world. Of these, 75 to 80 percent are women and children.(1) Many refugee women head their families; their husbands are in the military, are in cities or other countries seeking employment or...

Stirring the pot: immigrant and refugee challenges to the United States and the world. (summary of symposium, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York, October 18, 1993) (Refugees and International Population Flows)
January 1, 1994... On 18 October 1993, during a symposium held by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, experts from government and academia came together to discuss the challenges faced by the United States and the international community in the wake of...

Beyond Charity: International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis.
January 1, 1994... Beyond Charity contains all the qualities we have come to expect in a book on refugees by Gil Loescher: thorough research, mastery of a broad range of facts covering many nations and continents, an interpretation of the data centering on...

Una Decada de Refugio en Mexico: Los Refugiados Guatemaltecos y Los Derechos Humanos.
January 1, 1994... Graciela Freyermouth Enciso and Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo (Tlalpan, D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, 1992) 409pp. On 2 January 1994, a third large group of Guatemalan refugees -- 201...

Protecting the Dispossessed.
January 1, 1994... Francis Deng (Washington, DC. The Brookings Institution, 1993) 175pp. The end of the Cold War has brought unprecedented transformations to the global landscape. Even though missiles no longer remain poised to obliterate New York or Moscow,...

The Movement of Persons Across Borders.
January 1, 1994... As borders become both more and less important in the increasingly interdependent world order, there is a heightened necessity for a set of rules governing the flow of humankind across borders. It is estimated that on an average day, 7 million...

Identity, Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe.
January 1, 1994... Most discussions of international relations in the post-Cold War period have revolved around two interrelated trends: the structural vacuum in international security since the demise of bipolarity; and the decreasing priority of national...

Refugee Aid and Development: Theory and Practice.
January 1, 1994... The more things change, the more they stay the same. Hopes that the end of the Cold War stalemate would usher in a new age of international cooperation have proved to be premature. The idealistic impatience of those who believed that refugee...

A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters.
January 1, 1994... Kevin M. Cahill, ed. (New York: Basic Books and the Council on Foreign Relations, 1993) 340 pp. For many CNN viewers humanitarian assistance is defined by images of American GIs landing on the strobe-lit beaches of Mogadishu and foreign...