Weapons of Mass Migration

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Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy ( Engl. , German: expulsion, extortion and foreign policy: mass migration weapons is a 2010 published political) non-fiction book of the US political scientist Kelly Greenhill .

It describes the strategic, cross-border use of intentionally created or manipulated refugee movements in order to bring about political, social and economic changes in the affected state in favor of the applying state without the aid of conventional military means. The book's title was an analogy to the concept of Weapons of Mass Destruction ( WMD ) is selected, the disastrous consequences for everyone involved, but especially the affected migrants to clarify.

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Mode of action and potential threat to the strategic migration control by States as the basis of case studies from history Mariel boat crisis , the behavior of the European Union to the policy of sanctions against Libya and the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi , or the policies of Konrad Adenauer described. The author analyzes this widespread but largely unknown means of government coercion in which contexts, at which points in time, in which quantity and how successfully it has been used in the past. Furthermore, the actors involved are classified in terms of their motivation, their activity potential and their assertiveness in forcing changes for their own benefit.

Reviews

  • Gregor Schöllgen wrote in a review in the FAZ in March 2011 that the author reported "on the dilemmas of democracies in the age of globalization".
  • In 2011 the book was named Best Book of 2011 by the International Studies Association (ISA).
  • Christopher Rudolph, American University , sees the work as a solid contribution to the "IR ( International Relations ) literature" with regard to the subject of migration, which has generally received too little attention in the past.
  • Emanuela Paoletti, Journal of Refugee Studies, Oxford Journals, describes it as a “beautifully written analysis” which shows the extent to which refugee flows are used by states to influence the political decisions of other protagonists involved.
  • Adam Luedtke, City University of New York , stated in his book review in 2012 that Kelly Greenhill is the first political scientist who deals with the definition and analysis of "coercive engineered migration" (CEM) and that migration as a politically strategic option for states is scientifically thematized.
  • The magazine Cicero conducted an interview with the author in November 2015, in which she applied the theory of refugees as a political instrument, as represented in her book, to Turkey's relationship with Europe.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gregor Schöllgen, FAZ: Migration & Blackmail The new super weapon. March 22, 2011, accessed November 28, 2015 .
  2. ^ International Studies Association (ISA): Past Recipients. 2011, accessed November 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Rudolph, Christopher, Weapons of mass migration: forced displacement, coercion, and foreign policy, 2011 doi : 10.1017 / S1537592711001885 , accessed November 28, 2015
  4. ^ Emanuela Paoletti: Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy. By Kelly Greenhill. 2011, accessed November 29, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Luedthke, Adam, Weapons of mass migration: forced displacement, coercion, and foreign policy (Cornell studies in security affairs), 2012 doi : 10.1080 / 00905992.2012.708126 , accessed on November 28, 2015
  6. ↑ Interview with Kelly M. Greenhill: Mass migration as a weapon: "Turkey has a great deal of leverage in its hand." (No longer available online.) November 17, 2015, archived from the original on November 28, 2015 ; accessed on November 28, 2015 .