Forced Migration Magnitude and violence in international crises: 1945–2015

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-357
Author(s):  
Hemda Ben-Yehuda ◽  
Rami Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
International Crises ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Crisis Behavior ◽  
New Research ◽  
Security Concern

Abstract This study focuses on forced migration and interstate violence during international crises, as a major security concern with salient implications for international relations stability. The empirical data consists of 229 crises designated as Forced Migration Crises (FMC), identified within the 374 crises of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project. The study outlines a framework for analyzing FMC compared with Non-Forced Migration Crises (NFMC), presents an index of Forced Migration Magnitude (FMM), and probes three hypotheses. It points to transformations in forced migration since WWII, compares crises with and without forced migration, and explores patterns of FMM and violence. Results lead to rejection of hypothesis 1 on similarities between FMC and NFMC, supporting hypothesis 2 on considerable diversity between them. Findings on extended scope, strategic locale, enduring forced migration problems and increased violence support hypothesis 3, challenging the placement of forced migration merely as a social or humanitarian domestic concern. Instead, results show a salient increase in FMM, coupled with more severe interstate violence and war, dangerously destabilizing regions worldwide. These patterns require the integration of forced migration within crisis frameworks, as a new research agenda, to understand the nature of forced migration in the 21st century and its impact.

Migration, sons of the soil conflict, and international relations

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew I. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Relations ◽  
National Security ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
New Research

For most of the 20th century, the discipline of international relations largely ignored migration. Although recent work has made important contributions, a number of gaps remain, as the emerging literature tends to examine national security, international migration, forced migration, and developed countries, without exploring internal conflict, internal migration, voluntary migration, and developing countries. This article examines the enduring gaps in the literature on migration in international relations. It uses the concept of “sons of the soil” conflicts and the illustrative example of Côte d’Ivoire to highlight these overlooked dimensions. This serves to underscore the need for a new research agenda on migration in international relations.

The Future of International Relations

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Reich ◽  
Richard Ned Lebow
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Research ◽  
Material Power

This chapter revisits the concept of hegemony, elaborating some of the most important connections among them and assessing their implications for both U.S. foreign policy and international relations theory. Drawing on empirical findings laid out in the previous chapters, this chapter contends that hegemony is no longer applicable to international affairs, as its constituent functions are widely shared and exercised more by negotiation than fiat. This constellation requires a new conceptualization of influence. The chapter points to a new research agenda for the present century based on the recognition that we now live in a multipowered world—where actors combine social and material power to gain influence in varying ways—and not a unipolar world.

Diaspora economics: new perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 1110-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelie F. Constant ◽  
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
New Research ◽  
Culture Of Origin

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new field and suggest a new research agenda. Design/methodology/approach Combine ethnicity, migration and international relations into a new thinking. Provide a typology of diaspora and a thorough evaluation of its role and the roles of the home and host countries. Findings Diaspora economics is more than a new word for migration economics. It opens a new strand to political economy. Diaspora is perceived to be a well-defined group of migrants and their offspring with a joined cultural identity and ongoing identification with the country or culture of origin. This implies the potential to undermine the nation-state. Diasporas can shape policies in the host countries. Originality/value Provide a new understanding of global human relations.

scholarly journals Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS ◽  
PATRICIA OWENS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
New Research ◽  
International Thought

Abstract Canons of intellectual “greats” anchor the history and scope of academic disciplines. Within international relations (IR), such a canon emerged in the mid-twentieth century and is almost entirely male. Why are women thinkers absent from IR’s canon? We show that it is not due to a lack of international thought, or that this thought fell outside established IR theories. Rather it is due to the gendered and racialized selection and reception of work that is deemed to be canonical. In contrast, we show what can be gained by reclaiming women’s international thought through analyses of three intellectuals whose work was authoritative and influential in its own time or today. Our findings question several of the basic premises underpinning IR’s existing canon and suggest the need for a new research agenda on women international thinkers as part of a fundamental rethinking of the history and scope of the discipline.

scholarly journals Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics: A new critical framework for sociological analysis of human rights contestation

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Waites
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Boomerang Effect ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
New Research

This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a ‘critical model of the boomerang effect’, that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink’s well-known model of the ‘boomerang effect’, from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations including global queer politics, particularly to examine where and how actors in formerly or currently colonized states from the Global South can draw on the United Nations human rights system. The new model requires analysis of four themes, with a decolonizing enquiry applied to each: (1) articulation of human rights; (2) social structures and resources; (3) socio-cultural contexts; and (4) subjectivation. These themes are examined to illuminate two pivotal cases claiming decriminalization of same-sex sexual acts: Caleb Orozco in Belize, and Jason Jones in relation to Trinidad and Tobago – generating a new research agenda.

Wargaming as a Methodology: The International Crisis Wargame and Experimental Wargaming

2021 ◽  
pp. 104687812098758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schechter ◽  
Jacquelyn Schneider ◽  
Rachael Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
New Research

Background. Wargaming has a long history as a tool for understanding the complexity of conflict. Although wargames have shown their relevance across topics and time, the immersive nature of wargames and the guild-like communities that surround them have often resisted the social scientific advances that occurred alongside the evolution of warfare. However, recent work raises new possibilities for integrating wargaming practices and social scientific methods. Purpose. Develop the experimental wargaming method and practice. Prioritizing the focus on iteration, control, and generalizability within experimental design can provide new opportunities for wargames to answer broader questions about decision-making, crisis behaviors, and patterns of outcomes. Method. The International Crisis Wargame developed in 2018 demonstrates the viability of experimental wargaming, and models the process of theorizing, designing, developing, and executing these wargames. It also identifies what makes games more or less experimental and details how experimental design influenced choices in the game. Conclusion. Experimental wargames are a promising new tool for both the social science and the wargaming communities. A proposed new research agenda for experimental design within wargames would support this nascent method

Risk and International Relations: A New Research Agenda?

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl Jarvis ◽  
Martin Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
New Research

scholarly journals Practice Approaches to the Digital Transformations of Diplomacy: Toward a New Research Agenda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Hedling ◽  
Niklas Bremberg
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Change Agency ◽  
New Research ◽  
Digital Diplomacy ◽  
Key Questions

Abstract As a growing number of diplomatic practices take new digital forms, research on digital diplomacy is rapidly expanding. Many of the changes linked to digitalization transform or challenge traditional ways of doing diplomacy. Analyses of new forms of “digital diplomacy” are therefore valuable for the advancement of practice approaches in international relations theory. That said, digital diplomacy poses a number of challenges for international relations scholarship that are only beginning to be addressed. Digitalization is both a process and a result, and provokes key questions regarding continuity, change, agency, space, and materiality in diplomacy. The overarching aim of this article is to advance a research agenda that seeks to address key questions in the study of digital diplomacy on the basis of various practice approaches. In particular, the article highlights three dimensions of change as being central to the research agenda and investigates how these can be explored in future analyses of digital diplomacy.

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