Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he is also Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance Project. His research focuses on the international politics of migration and refugee protection, and his recent books include Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, Routledge 2008). He has previously worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and has held positions at Princeton University, LSE, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, UNHCR, and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous works on refugees, human rights, and conflict and security, most recently including UNHCR in World Politics: A Perilous Path (Oxford University Press, 2001), UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2008), and Protracted Refugee Situations: Politics, Human Rights and Security Dimensions (United Nations University Press, 2008).

• Introduction: Refugees in IR ; 1. Realism, Refugees, and Strategies of Humanitarianism ; 2. International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime ; 3. Refugees, International Society, and Global Order ; 4. Humanitarianism, Paternalism, and the UNHCR ; 5. Beyond 'Bare Life': Refugees and the 'Right to Have Rights' ; 6. The Only Thinkable Figure? Ethical and Normative Approaches to Refugees in International Relations ; 7. Feminist Geopolitics Meets Refugee Studies ; 8. 'Global' Governance of Forced Migration ; 9. Refugees and Military Intervention ; 10. UNHCR and the Securitisation of Forced Migration ; 11. Refugees, Peacebuilding, and the Regional Dynamics of Conflict ; 12. Post-conflict Statebuilding and Forced Migration ; 13. Forced Migration in the International Political Economy ; Index

Betts and Loescher have done an impressive job in bringing together contributions that demonstrate a wide variety of ways in which forcibly displaced persons can be included as key interests in IR.

Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he is also Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance Project. His research focuses on the international politics of migration and refugee protection, and his recent books include Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, Routledge 2008). He has previously worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and has held positions at Princeton University, LSE, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, UNHCR, and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous works on refugees, human rights, and conflict and security, most recently including UNHCR in World Politics: A Perilous Path (Oxford University Press, 2001), UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2008), and Protracted Refugee Situations: Politics, Human Rights and Security Dimensions (United Nations University Press, 2008).

• Introduction: Refugees in IR ; 1. Realism, Refugees, and Strategies of Humanitarianism ; 2. International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime ; 3. Refugees, International Society, and Global Order ; 4. Humanitarianism, Paternalism, and the UNHCR ; 5. Beyond 'Bare Life': Refugees and the 'Right to Have Rights' ; 6. The Only Thinkable Figure? Ethical and Normative Approaches to Refugees in International Relations ; 7. Feminist Geopolitics Meets Refugee Studies ; 8. 'Global' Governance of Forced Migration ; 9. Refugees and Military Intervention ; 10. UNHCR and the Securitisation of Forced Migration ; 11. Refugees, Peacebuilding, and the Regional Dynamics of Conflict ; 12. Post-conflict Statebuilding and Forced Migration ; 13. Forced Migration in the International Political Economy ; Index

Betts and Loescher have done an impressive job in bringing together contributions that demonstrate a wide variety of ways in which forcibly displaced persons can be included as key interests in IR.

Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he is also Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance Project. His research focuses on the international politics of migration and refugee protection, and his recent books include Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, Routledge 2008). He has previously worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and has held positions at Princeton University, LSE, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, UNHCR, and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous works on refugees, human rights, and conflict and security, most recently including UNHCR in World Politics: A Perilous Path (Oxford University Press, 2001), UNHCR: the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2008), and Protracted Refugee Situations: Politics, Human Rights and Security Dimensions (United Nations University Press, 2008).

• Introduction: Refugees in IR ; 1. Realism, Refugees, and Strategies of Humanitarianism ; 2. International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime ; 3. Refugees, International Society, and Global Order ; 4. Humanitarianism, Paternalism, and the UNHCR ; 5. Beyond 'Bare Life': Refugees and the 'Right to Have Rights' ; 6. The Only Thinkable Figure? Ethical and Normative Approaches to Refugees in International Relations ; 7. Feminist Geopolitics Meets Refugee Studies ; 8. 'Global' Governance of Forced Migration ; 9. Refugees and Military Intervention ; 10. UNHCR and the Securitisation of Forced Migration ; 11. Refugees, Peacebuilding, and the Regional Dynamics of Conflict ; 12. Post-conflict Statebuilding and Forced Migration ; 13. Forced Migration in the International Political Economy ; Index

Betts and Loescher have done an impressive job in bringing together contributions that demonstrate a wide variety of ways in which forcibly displaced persons can be included as key interests in IR.