Memorandum from His Excellency the High Commissioner for 'Iraq, to the Political Agent, Kuwait, regarding boundaries of Kuwait., April 19th, 1923.

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Political Agent

Part II Sources, Ch.10 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milner James ◽  
Ramasubramanyam Jay
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Voluntary Contributions ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Refugee Law ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Refugee Law ◽  
Over Time

This chapter addresses the role played by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the making and implementation of international refugee law. It begins by considering UNHCR’s mandate responsibilities and operational functions to better understand the structures that condition the scope of UNHCR’s engagement with the functioning of international law. While UNHCR’s 1950 Statute and the Refugee Convention both mandate UNHCR to serve particular functions, such as its supervisory responsibility relating to the Refugee Convention, its Statute also places particular constraints on UNHCR, especially in terms of the scope of its activities and its reliance on voluntary contributions from States to perform its mandated functions. The chapter then looks at how the roles UNHCR has played in the making and implementation of refugee law at the global, regional, and national levels, through its operations, and how these functions have evolved over time. By illustrating the various instances where UNHCR has demonstrated power, along with those instances where UNHCR has exhibited pathologies and has been constrained by the interests of States, the chapter points to the importance of understanding international refugee law within the political environment in which it functions.

Kashars Against Mashars

Pakistan ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Mariam Abou Zahab
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Political Agent ◽  
Tribal Leadership ◽  
Tribal Areas

This chapter discusses the change in the sociology and patterns of leadership in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) since the arrival of al-Qaeda in the area after 9/11. It focuses on South Waziristan which has become the hub of al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Uzbeks, among other foreign jihadis. The chapter argues that the Talibanization of Waziristan might be analyzed as the outcome of a social movement among the Wazir tribesmen which started in the 1970s and was accelerated in the post-9/11 context. It analyzes the emergence of “tribal entrepreneurs” who took advantage of the change in political opportunities and their access to resources in order to challenge the traditional tribal leadership. It also describes the movement of the kashars against the mashars and the Political Agent.

scholarly journals Servant of Tsar and Motherland. Basil Oskarovitch von Klemm (1861–1938) in Bukhara Emirate

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-125
Author(s):  
T. N. Zagorodnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Political Agent ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Training Department

From the very beginning of his adulthood Basil Oskarovitch von Klemm dreamed of the diplomatic career in the Orient. So he graduated from Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages and after that from Training Department for Oriental Languages affiliated to the Asiatic Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In summer of 1885 he began working in that Department and after a year was send to Bukhara Emirate to work as an interpreter in Russian Imperial Political Agency. The article concentrates on the beginning of Basil Oskarovitch von Klemm’s service in Central Asia, when he studied the traditional life of the Emirate and of the Emir’s court, the details and peculiarities of Oriental diplomacy, as well as etiquette, being the dragoman of the Agency in Bukhara Emirate. He acted instead of the Political Agent, when the latter was absent. The Attachment to the article contains the Report of B. O. von Klemm, where he analyzes the highly charged political situation in Bukhara and gives his recommendations on the ways to stabilize it and to deal with the ruler of the Emirate in order to appease him. The document shows the difference between the views of Russian Empire towards her vassal state and the views of Great Britain towards India.

scholarly journals Kapturing Kakuma : the commodification of refugees and participatory communication alternatives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Strecker
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Third World ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
The Political ◽  
Participatory Communication ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Historical Photographs

Over the past 50 years, the image of statelessness has shifted from heroic European refugees to depictions of nameless, impoverished refugees from the 'Third World'. Although this shift apparently stems from noble intentions, the image of the 'vulnerable refugee' has stripped refugees of agency and expressive rights. The photographs published by The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has employed this vulnerability frame in order to lobby for western aid by presenting an easily digestible discourse, congruent with Western ideology. The UNHCR has thus commodified refugees in order to ensure funding from western donors. This paper challenges this commodification by presenting a comparative analysis of the UNHCR's historical photographs, and images produced through a participatory photography project conducted in the Kenyan Kakuma Refugee Camp. This project shifts the conventional illustrative refugee discourse by identifying and rejecting the political and economic frameworks that have institutionalized the voiceless and commodified refugee.

The European Marvell

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Nigel Smith
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Political Agent ◽  
Luis De Gongora ◽  
Cross Lingual

This chapter investigates Marvell’s poetry in the context of three aspects of seventeenth-century European poetry and in light of Marvell’s own connections with the continental Europe of his lifetime, and his interest in European literature in Latin and the vernacular languages. The chapter argues that our understanding of Marvell is far better served by regarding his enterprises as poet, prose writer, and political agent as a part of the particular literary power relationships and the political role of literature that pertained in continental Europe, in many ways differing from English situations. Topics discussed include the patronage and veneration of European poets, the cross-lingual arenas of poetic contest in times of international conflict, and the broader significance of the appeal to Marvell of European poetry, exemplified in the case of the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.

Growing Organically

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-96
Author(s):  
Elvira Domínguez-Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Rights Council ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Single Category ◽  
Unplanned Development

Exceptional features that characterize the Special Procedures are illustrated in their progressive and unplanned development as a “system” of human rights mechanisms. This evolution is explained by a combination of political and expert-led decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council, mandate holders, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The successive approval of cross-cutting mandates aimed at all Special Procedures has contributed to coherence in the competences assigned to them, yet has also opened the door to indirect and an unaccounted multiplication of tasks. Over the years, Special Procedures mandate holders have developed practices that have abetted their progressive configuration as belonging to a “system” of human rights mechanisms. This process has evolved through individual and collective initiatives. While mandate holders have made significant efforts to harmonize methods of work, they have simultaneously insisted on maintaining their autonomy. The political consideration of Special Procedures as a single category has been reflected in the support received by the UN Secretariat, through the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, a key determinant in their perception as a coherent group of mechanisms.

Anarchism

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Franks
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Agent ◽  
Intersecting Families ◽  
Conceptual Problems

This chapter identifies some of the conceptual problems in providing a stable, inclusive interpretation of anarchism. It rejects accounts of anarchism constructed on the supposed universal minimum of ‘anti-statism’, as these synthesize radically antipathetic movements, in particular free-market individualisms along with the main socialist variants of anarchist communism and syndicalism. These purportedly comprehensive versions overlook the distinctive conceptual arrangements of social and individualist anarchisms. These separate ideological forms support radically different practices and generate conflicting interpretations of ‘anti-statism’. Instead, a conceptual analytical approach is best suited to identifying stable, intersecting families of anarchism (such as Green anarchism, anarcha-feminism and post-anarchism), as this method is sensitive to the malleable and variable conception of the political agent, which is a feature of the main constellations of social anarchism.

The Political Agent and Radical Democracy

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 837-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofer Parchev
Keyword(s):  
Radical Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Agent
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