Diaspora Organizations in International Affairs
Analyzing the role and impact of Diaspora Organizations (DOs) in International Relations (IR), this interdisciplinary volume provides empirical accounts of their work across Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East.
Over the last three decades, DOs have increased in number, spread to new regions, and addressed an ever-widening array of global problems, yet they have not received sufficient attention in IR in spite of the inter- and transnational nature of their involvements.
Contributions explore important topics such as:
- The role of DOs in cooperation and conflict and in change and stability;
- DOs as transnational organizations and their degree of autonomy and power within the networks in which they operate; and
- The changing roles of DOs vis--vis states, regimes, and international organizations, when dealing with issues as diverse as peace, conflict, migration, integration, development, humanitarian action, human rights, religion, and economic growth.
Demonstrating how IR can benefit from a stronger focus on DOs, this book will also help other disciplines gain insights into DOs and will prove useful to those in the fields of international relations, sociology, geography and anthropology.
Dennis Dijkzeul is Professor of Conflict and Organization Research at the Social Science School and the Institute of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
Margit Fauser is Professor of Migration, Transculturality and Internationalization at the Department of Social Work, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
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Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds (2019)
Misperception and Contestation in EU-West Africa Relations
Clara Weinhardt
Negotiations in the World Trade Organization (2019)
Design and Performance
Michal Parizek
The International Organization for Migration (2020)
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Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups (2020)
The Frontlines of Diplomacy
Jonathan Ashley Clements
Diaspora Organizations in International Affairs
Edited by Dennis Dijkzeul and Margit Fauser
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Policy Networks and Governance
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dijkzeul, Dennis, editor. | Fauser, Margit, 1972 editor.
Title: Diaspora organizations in international affairs / edited by Dennis
Dijkzeul and Margit Fauser.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series:
Global institutions | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019045586 (print) | LCCN 2019045587 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781138589131 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429491849 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Transnationalism. | ImmigrantsServices for. |
ImmigrantsGovernment policy. | International agencies. | Non
governmental organizations. | International relations.
Classification: LCC JZ1320 .D53 2020 (print) | LCC JZ1320 (ebook) |
DDC 362.89/91dc23
