FSI researchers work to understand continuity and change in societies as they confront their problems and opportunities. This includes the implications of migration and human trafficking. What happens to a society when young girls exit the sex trade? How do groups moving between locations impact societies, economies, self-identity and citizenship? What are the ethnic challenges faced by an increasingly diverse European Union? From a policy perspective, scholars also work to investigate the consequences of security-related measures for society and its values.
The Europe Center reflects much of FSI’s agenda of investigating societies, serving as a forum for experts to research the cultures, religions and people of Europe. The Center sponsors several seminars and lectures, as well as visiting scholars.
Societal research also addresses issues of demography and aging, such as the social and economic challenges of providing health care for an aging population. How do older adults make decisions, and what societal tools need to be in place to ensure the resulting decisions are well-informed? FSI regularly brings in international scholars to look at these issues. They discuss how adults care for their older parents in rural China as well as the economic aspects of aging populations in China and India.
Refugees in International Relations
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" Refugees in International Relations shows that strategic and institutional thinking are essential to understand the causes of forced migration, its consequences, and appropriate policy responses. It has a valuable and important central theme: refugee issues are inherently political." --Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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 Studies has generally bypassed insights from International Relations. Refugees in International Relations therefore represents an attempt to bridge the divide between these disciplines, and to place refugees within the mainstream of International Relations. Drawing together the work and ideas of a combination of the world's leading and emerging International Relations scholars, Refugees in International Relations considers what ideas from International Relations can offer our understanding of the international politics of forced migration. The insights draw from across the theoretical spectrum of International Relations from realism to critical theory to feminism, covering issues including international cooperation, security, and the international political economy. They engage with some of the most challenging political and practical questions in contemporary forced migration, including peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, and statebuilding. The result is a set of highly original chapters, yielding not only new concepts of wider relevance to International Relations but also insights for academics, policy-makers, and practitioners working on forced migration in particular and humanitarianism in general.
Contents:
- "Refugees in International Relations", Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher
- "Realism, Refugees, and Strategies of Humanitarianism", Jack Snyder
- "International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime", Alexander Betts
- "Refugees, International Society, and Global Order", Andrew Hurrell
- "Humanitarianism, Paternalism, and the UNHCR", Michael Barnett
- "Beyond 'Bare Life': Refugees and the 'Right to Have Rights'", Patricia Owens
- "The Only Thinkable Figure? Ethical and Normative Approaches to Refugees in International Relations", Chris Brown
- "Feminist Geopolitics Meets Refugee Studies", Jennifer Hyndman
- "'Global' Governance of Forced Migration", Sophia Benz and Andreas Hasenclever
- "Refugees and Military Intervention", Adam Roberts
- "UNHCR and the Securitization of Forced Migration", Anne Hammerstad
- "Refugees, Peacebuilding, and the Regional Dynamics of Conflict", James Milner
- "Post-conflict Statebuilding and Forced Migration", Dominik Zaum
- "Forced Migration in the International Political Economy", Sarah Collinson
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Regionalism and governance in Asia
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Earlier in 2010, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center scholars Donald K. Emmerson and Daniel C. Sneider were selected as research associates for the prestigious National Asia Research Program (NARP), a policy-oriented research and conference program run jointly by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Emmerson, director of the Southeast Asia Forum, and Sneider, associate director for research at Shorenstein APARC, presented at a NARP symposium held on October 14, 2010 in honor of Professor Robert Scalapino of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The two joined other prominent Asia scholars from across the United States. Emmerson took part in the session on regionalism in Asia with the presentation "An American Place at an Asian Table? Regionalism and its Reasons." Sneider's presentation, "Japan's New Asianism: Threat or Opportunity?," was featured during the session on governance in Asia.
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