Table of Contents

1: The UNHCR at 50: State Pressures and Institutional Autonomy. 2: International Recognition of Refugees. 3: The Cold War Origins of the UNHCR under Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart. 4: The Emerging Independence of the UNHCR under Auguste Lindt. 5: 'The Good Offices' and Expansion into Africa under Felix Schnyder. 6: The Global Expansion of the UNHCR under Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. 7: The New Cold War and the UNCHR under Poul Hartling. 8: The UNHCR's 'New Look', Financial Crisis, and Collapse of Morale under Jean-Pierre Hocke and Thorvald Stoltenberg. 9: The Post-Cold War Era and the UNHCR under Sadako Ogata. 10: Towards the Future: the UNHCR in the Twenty-First Century