Writing About Displaced People in the Time of Coronavirus
The pandemic is simply exposing the ongoing precarity of the displaced rather than disrupting their ‘normal’ lives, and so there is much to learn about what international protection should look like.
Humanitarian Intervention: Alive and Kicking
When it comes to military action to prevent mass atrocity crimes, it seems that key players in international politics have abandoned the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
Who is Not a Refugee?
What I want to draw attention to here are the not-refugees, especially those we classify as ‘economic’ migrants but who are fleeing places in search of basic survival.
‘Trumpism’ and the Future of International Politics: The Return of Realism
Trump’s presidency represents a radical break in international politics. Under Trumpism rules are for losers. Realism has returned, and liberal internationalism is, for now anyway, dead.
Framing the Refugee
Unless citizens are willing to problematize their own position, power and safety, they must accept that they are not willing to take the Refugee Question seriously.
The Rationality Gap: Brexit and the Immigration Question
If Britain abandons reason and principle, we will not be able to reclaim them and we will end up back in a place which we thought Europe had left behind forever.
What’s Wrong with the Refugee Convention?
The UN Refugee Convention and the rights and obligations which flow from it are inadequate and need to be fundamentally revised.
Who is a Refugee?
The very idea of who counts as a refugee is at stake due to new political discourse, and that may have dangerous consequences for all those seeking asylum around the world.
Europe’s Response to Migrant Tragedy in the Mediterranean
Recent EU responses should make us wonder whether the political atmosphere around migration in Europe means that the continent has journeyed to the heart of darkness.
Global Warming: Is Paris the Last-chance Saloon?
Global warming’s last-chance saloon will soon be upon us. Yet, far from acting together, we have various gangs ready to shoot each other in the back while the piano-player plays on.
