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The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson and Raia Prokhovnik (eds), Oxford, Routledge Press, 2006. 240pp. ISBN 0415356814 (hbk.) 65.00 [pounds sterling]
Understanding the conditions under which individuals, states and international organisations are offered or offer protection are the subject of much debate and continued controversy. Whether it is the actions of the Australian government in offering protection visas to West Papuans or the Iraqi invasion of 2003, the debates surrounding protection come in many and varied forms. The editors of this book have approached this topical debate by including a variety of approaches to protection focusing on political agency and (inter) national security.
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