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Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Kelly M. Greenhill
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Description for Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16. BIC Classification: JFFD; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 656.
At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. Yet each of these seemingly unconnected and far-reaching foreign policy decisions resulted at least in part from the exercise of a unique kind of coercion, one predicated on the intentional creation, manipulation, and exploitation of real or threatened mass population movements. In Weapons of ... Read more
At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. Yet each of these seemingly unconnected and far-reaching foreign policy decisions resulted at least in part from the exercise of a unique kind of coercion, one predicated on the intentional creation, manipulation, and exploitation of real or threatened mass population movements. In Weapons of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801448713
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V9780801448713
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About Kelly M. Greenhill
Kelly M. Greenhill is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tufts University and Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy and coeditor of Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict, both from Cornell. ... Read more
Reviews for Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Kelly M. Greenhill's fine analysis gives a double meaning to the notion of weapons of the weak: tin-pot dictators try to get bargaining leverage over neighboring democracies by threatening to swamp them with refugees. This has happened on average once a year over the past half century. Those interested in refugees or in creative bargaining tactics will be fascinated by ... Read more