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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and world politics
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created over 50 years ago to be a human rights and advocacy organization. But governments also created the agency to promote regional and international stability and to serve the interest of states. Consequently, the UNHCR has always trod a perilous path between its mandate to protect refugees and asylum seekers and the demands placed upon it by states to be a relevant actor in international relations. A key focus is to examine the extent to which the evolution of the UNHCR has been framed by the crucial events of international politics and international security during the past half century and how, in turn, the actions of the first eight High Commissioners have helped shape the course of world history.
The UNHCR at 50: state pressures and institutional autonomy -- International recognition of refugees -- The Cold War origins of the UNHCR under Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart -- The emerging independence of the UNHCR under Auguste Lindt -- 'The good offices' and expansion into Africa under Felix Schnyder -- "The global expansion of the UNHCR under Prince Sadruddin Aga Kahn -- The new Cold War and the UNHCR under Poul Hartling -- The UNHCR's 'new look', financial crisis, and collapse of morale under Jean-Pierre Hocke and Thorvald Stoltenberg -- The post-Cold War era and the UNHCR under Sadako Ogata -- Towards the future: the UNHCR in the twenty-first century.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-409) and index.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001