Randolph Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randolph Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randolph |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards the Governance of Global Systemic Risk: Reforming the Summit of the Future
The UN ’s Summit of the Future and subsequent Pact for the Future were finalized in September 2024. Their purpose was to enhance international cooperation to deal with existential global risks and, towards that end, address the weaknesses of multilateral governance. This paper suggests that such complex risks have been largely unaddressed in the Summit and in the Pact . Such risks pose an intensifying global challenge. A commitment to meet that c…
The future of warfare: Are we ready
To what extent do the ways in which we anticipate threats, analyze their possible consequences and determine ways to mitigate them explain the causes of warfare in the future? This article – though never attempting to predict – poses plausible causes of future wars that may stem from transformative change over the next two decades. In asking the question “Are we ready?” to deal with such wars, the answer is framed in terms of the interrelationshi…
Planning from the future: An emerging agenda
In the foreseeable future, it is more than likely that the types, dimensions, and dynamics of crisis drivers will increase dramatically, in some instances exponentially. While a growing number of organizations with humanitarian roles and responsibilities sense that such changes are afoot, few have looked at how these might fundamentally affect not only what they do but also how they do it. This article suggests that it is time for humanitarian or…
The humanitarian response costs of climate change
This research attempts to improve understanding of how climate change may affect international humanitarian spending, using existing international databases that track disaster occurrence and humanitarian costs. A range of potential impact scenarios is developed employing four distinct methodological approaches. The findings indicate that climate change will have a significant impact on humanitarian costs and the increase could range from a 32 pe…
The governance of global security and development: Convergence, Divergence and Coherence
This paper discusses the gaps in the present international system that in the final analysis threaten the objectives of conflict management. It asks if there is the interest and institutional will within the international community to close such gaps. It poses this challenge from the perspective of coherence. As noted in companion pieces to this study, the concept of coherence has at least four inter-related and complementary dimensions, i.e. int…
International humanitarian crises: Two decades before and two decades beyond
Journal Article International humanitarian crises: two decades before and two decades beyond Get access Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1International Policy Institute, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 80, Issue 5, October 2004, Pages 851–869, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00422.x Published: 28 October 2004
The United Nations' Humanitarian Pillar: Refocusing the UN's Disaster and Emergency Roles and Responsibilities
Changes in the nature of humanitarian crises and in the ways that the international community responds to such crises demand a radically overhauled role for the United Nations system. At a time when the UN and its member states are pursuing reform of some of that institution's most fundamental peace and security functions, this paper suggests that reform, too, is required to meet humanitarian crises of the future. This paper proposes a new type o…
Humanitarian dilemmas in peace and war
Humanitarian assistance is becoming more complex and the environment in which it operates more competitive. Nevertheless, humanitarianism is shielded from such pressures by a set of principles that are reflected in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) which all governments ostensibly accept. The issue for the wider international community as well as for donor and recipi ent governments and humanitarian organizations is whether such principles can…
Humanitarian futures and adaptive failures
Scientific and technological change will intensify over the next two decades, profoundly affecting the global economy and the environment, as well as demographic trends and political and security structures in most parts of the world. An unintended consequence may be an exponential rise in human exposure to disasters and emergencies. Such humanitarian crises may, in no small part, be due to planners' inability to anticipate potential hazards and …
Humanitarian Assistance and Inter-Agency Co-ordination and Co-Operation: Constraints and Prospects in an African Context
Journal Article Humanitarian Assistance and Inter-Agency Co-ordination and Co-Operation: Constraints and Prospects in an African Context Get access Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent *Inter-Agency Support Unit, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland. The views expressed in this paper are the personal views of the author and are not necessarily shared by the Department of Humanitarian Affairs. Search for other works by this auth…
Anatomy of Disaster Relief: The International Network in Action
Feature reviews
Portraits of Fidel Castro Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. Edited by Jeffrey M Elliott and Mervyn M Dymally. New York: Pathfinder Press. 1986. 258pp. £5.75pb Fidel and Religion: Castro Talks on Revolution and Religion with Frei Betto. Frei Betto. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1987. 314pp. $19.95hb Fidel: A Critical Portrait. Tad Szulc. London: Century Hutchinson. 1987. 585pp. £14.95hb. New York: William Morrow. 1986. 703pp. $…
The quality of mercy: Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience and Disasters and development
Journal Article The quality of mercy: Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience and Disasters and development Get access The quality of mercy: Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience. By William Shawcross. London: Deutsch. 1984. 464 pp. Index. £12.95. ISBN 0 233 97691 4.Disasters and development. By Frederick C. Cuny. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. 278 pp. Index. Pb.: $16.95. ISBN 0 19 503293 4. Randolph Kent Randolph Kent 1Un…
The refugee in international law and Escape to freedom: The story of the international rescue committee
Journal Article The refugee in international law and Escape to freedom: the story of the international rescue committee Get access The refugee in international law. By Guy S. Goodwin-Gill. Oxford: Clarendon (Oxford University Press). 1983. 318pp.Escape to freedom: the story of the international rescue committee. By Aaron Levenstein. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1983. 338pp. £26.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Surrey Search for…
Reflecting upon a decade of disasters: The Evolving Response of the International Community
evolving response of the international community
Rational Decision-Making: Israel's Security Choices, 1967
Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
Journal Article Human Rights and American Foreign Policy Get access Human Rights and American Foreign Policy. Edited by Donald P. Kommers and Gilburt D. Loescher. Notre Dame, London: University of Notre Dame Press. 1979. 333 pp. $6.95. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 200–201, h…
Threat Perceptions in International Crisis
Journal Article Threat Perceptions in International Crisis Get access Threat Perceptions in International Crisis. By Raymond Cohen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1980. 229 pp. £10.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 116–117, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619367 Published: 01 January 1980
Challenges to America: United States Foreign Policy in the 1980s and The Process of Priority Formulation: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
Journal Article Challenges to America: United States Foreign Policy in the 1980s and The Process of Priority Formulation: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 Get access Challenges to America: United States Foreign Policy in the 1980s. Edited by Charles W. Kegley and Patrick J. McGowan. Beverley Hill, Calif., London: Sage. 1979. 312 pp. (Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies, Vol. 4.)£15.60The Process of Priority F…
Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War
Journal Article Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War Get access Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War. By Stanley Hoffmann. New York, Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill. 1978. 331 pp.£9.40. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 1979, Pages 338–339, …
Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy and Two Hundred Years of American Foreign Policy
Journal Article Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy and Two Hundred Years of American Foreign Policy Get access Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy. By Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter. New York, London: Monthly Review Press. 1977. 334 pp. $17.50. £9⋅85.Two Hundred Years of American Foreign Policy. Edited by William P. Bundy. New York: New …
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises
Journal Article Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises Get access Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises. By Richard K. Betts. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press. 1977. 292 pp. £10.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 1978, Pages 719–720, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617382 …
America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future
Journal Article America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future Get access America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future. Edited by Richard Rosecrance. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press. 1976. 276 pp. $9.75. £7.30. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 19…
Foreign Policy Analysis and U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content
Journal Article Foreign Policy Analysis and U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content Get access Foreign Policy Analysis. Edited by Richard L. Merritt. Lexington, Mass., Farnborough: Heath. 1976. 159 pp. (Policy Studies Organization Series 9.) £7.75.U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content. By Marian D. Irish and Elke Frank. New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1975. 562 pp. Pb: £5.80. Randolph Kent Randolph Kent 1University of…
The Oriental Club of Philadelphia
Rational Decision-Making: Israel's Security Choices, 1967
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises
Journal Article Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises Get access Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises. By Richard K. Betts. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press. 1977. 292 pp. £10.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 1978, Pages 719–720, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617382 …
Reflecting upon a decade of disasters: The Evolving Response of the International Community
evolving response of the international community
Planning from the future: An emerging agenda
In the foreseeable future, it is more than likely that the types, dimensions, and dynamics of crisis drivers will increase dramatically, in some instances exponentially. While a growing number of organizations with humanitarian roles and responsibilities sense that such changes are afoot, few have looked at how these might fundamentally affect not only what they do but also how they do it. This article suggests that it is time for humanitarian or…
The United Nations' Humanitarian Pillar: Refocusing the UN's Disaster and Emergency Roles and Responsibilities
Changes in the nature of humanitarian crises and in the ways that the international community responds to such crises demand a radically overhauled role for the United Nations system. At a time when the UN and its member states are pursuing reform of some of that institution's most fundamental peace and security functions, this paper suggests that reform, too, is required to meet humanitarian crises of the future. This paper proposes a new type o…
The governance of global security and development: Convergence, Divergence and Coherence
This paper discusses the gaps in the present international system that in the final analysis threaten the objectives of conflict management. It asks if there is the interest and institutional will within the international community to close such gaps. It poses this challenge from the perspective of coherence. As noted in companion pieces to this study, the concept of coherence has at least four inter-related and complementary dimensions, i.e. int…
International humanitarian crises: Two decades before and two decades beyond
Journal Article International humanitarian crises: two decades before and two decades beyond Get access Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1International Policy Institute, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 80, Issue 5, October 2004, Pages 851–869, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00422.x Published: 28 October 2004
Humanitarian futures and adaptive failures
Scientific and technological change will intensify over the next two decades, profoundly affecting the global economy and the environment, as well as demographic trends and political and security structures in most parts of the world. An unintended consequence may be an exponential rise in human exposure to disasters and emergencies. Such humanitarian crises may, in no small part, be due to planners' inability to anticipate potential hazards and …
Threat Perceptions in International Crisis
Journal Article Threat Perceptions in International Crisis Get access Threat Perceptions in International Crisis. By Raymond Cohen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1980. 229 pp. £10.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 116–117, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619367 Published: 01 January 1980
America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future
Journal Article America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future Get access America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future. Edited by Richard Rosecrance. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press. 1976. 276 pp. $9.75. £7.30. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 19…
The Oriental Club of Philadelphia
America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future
Journal Article America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future Get access America as an Ordinary Country: US Foreign Policy and the Future. Edited by Richard Rosecrance. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press. 1976. 276 pp. $9.75. £7.30. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 19…
Foreign Policy Analysis and U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content
Journal Article Foreign Policy Analysis and U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content Get access Foreign Policy Analysis. Edited by Richard L. Merritt. Lexington, Mass., Farnborough: Heath. 1976. 159 pp. (Policy Studies Organization Series 9.) £7.75.U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content. By Marian D. Irish and Elke Frank. New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1975. 562 pp. Pb: £5.80. Randolph Kent Randolph Kent 1University of…
Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy and Two Hundred Years of American Foreign Policy
Journal Article Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy and Two Hundred Years of American Foreign Policy Get access Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy. By Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter. New York, London: Monthly Review Press. 1977. 334 pp. $17.50. £9⋅85.Two Hundred Years of American Foreign Policy. Edited by William P. Bundy. New York: New …
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises
Journal Article Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises Get access Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises. By Richard K. Betts. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press. 1977. 292 pp. £10.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 1978, Pages 719–720, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617382 …
Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War
Journal Article Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War Get access Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War. By Stanley Hoffmann. New York, Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill. 1978. 331 pp.£9.40. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 1979, Pages 338–339, …
Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
Journal Article Human Rights and American Foreign Policy Get access Human Rights and American Foreign Policy. Edited by Donald P. Kommers and Gilburt D. Loescher. Notre Dame, London: University of Notre Dame Press. 1979. 333 pp. $6.95. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 200–201, h…
Threat Perceptions in International Crisis
Journal Article Threat Perceptions in International Crisis Get access Threat Perceptions in International Crisis. By Raymond Cohen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1980. 229 pp. £10.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 116–117, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619367 Published: 01 January 1980
Challenges to America: United States Foreign Policy in the 1980s and The Process of Priority Formulation: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
Journal Article Challenges to America: United States Foreign Policy in the 1980s and The Process of Priority Formulation: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 Get access Challenges to America: United States Foreign Policy in the 1980s. Edited by Charles W. Kegley and Patrick J. McGowan. Beverley Hill, Calif., London: Sage. 1979. 312 pp. (Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies, Vol. 4.)£15.60The Process of Priority F…
Rational Decision-Making: Israel's Security Choices, 1967
Reflecting upon a decade of disasters: The Evolving Response of the International Community
evolving response of the international community
The refugee in international law and Escape to freedom: The story of the international rescue committee
Journal Article The refugee in international law and Escape to freedom: the story of the international rescue committee Get access The refugee in international law. By Guy S. Goodwin-Gill. Oxford: Clarendon (Oxford University Press). 1983. 318pp.Escape to freedom: the story of the international rescue committee. By Aaron Levenstein. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1983. 338pp. £26.50. Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1University of Surrey Search for…
The quality of mercy: Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience and Disasters and development
Journal Article The quality of mercy: Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience and Disasters and development Get access The quality of mercy: Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience. By William Shawcross. London: Deutsch. 1984. 464 pp. Index. £12.95. ISBN 0 233 97691 4.Disasters and development. By Frederick C. Cuny. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. 278 pp. Index. Pb.: $16.95. ISBN 0 19 503293 4. Randolph Kent Randolph Kent 1Un…
Feature reviews
Portraits of Fidel Castro Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. Edited by Jeffrey M Elliott and Mervyn M Dymally. New York: Pathfinder Press. 1986. 258pp. £5.75pb Fidel and Religion: Castro Talks on Revolution and Religion with Frei Betto. Frei Betto. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1987. 314pp. $19.95hb Fidel: A Critical Portrait. Tad Szulc. London: Century Hutchinson. 1987. 585pp. £14.95hb. New York: William Morrow. 1986. 703pp. $…
Anatomy of Disaster Relief: The International Network in Action
Humanitarian Assistance and Inter-Agency Co-ordination and Co-Operation: Constraints and Prospects in an African Context
Journal Article Humanitarian Assistance and Inter-Agency Co-ordination and Co-Operation: Constraints and Prospects in an African Context Get access Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent *Inter-Agency Support Unit, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland. The views expressed in this paper are the personal views of the author and are not necessarily shared by the Department of Humanitarian Affairs. Search for other works by this auth…
Humanitarian futures and adaptive failures
Scientific and technological change will intensify over the next two decades, profoundly affecting the global economy and the environment, as well as demographic trends and political and security structures in most parts of the world. An unintended consequence may be an exponential rise in human exposure to disasters and emergencies. Such humanitarian crises may, in no small part, be due to planners' inability to anticipate potential hazards and …
Humanitarian dilemmas in peace and war
Humanitarian assistance is becoming more complex and the environment in which it operates more competitive. Nevertheless, humanitarianism is shielded from such pressures by a set of principles that are reflected in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) which all governments ostensibly accept. The issue for the wider international community as well as for donor and recipi ent governments and humanitarian organizations is whether such principles can…
International humanitarian crises: Two decades before and two decades beyond
Journal Article International humanitarian crises: two decades before and two decades beyond Get access Randolph C. Kent Randolph C. Kent 1International Policy Institute, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 80, Issue 5, October 2004, Pages 851–869, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00422.x Published: 28 October 2004
The United Nations' Humanitarian Pillar: Refocusing the UN's Disaster and Emergency Roles and Responsibilities
Changes in the nature of humanitarian crises and in the ways that the international community responds to such crises demand a radically overhauled role for the United Nations system. At a time when the UN and its member states are pursuing reform of some of that institution's most fundamental peace and security functions, this paper suggests that reform, too, is required to meet humanitarian crises of the future. This paper proposes a new type o…
The governance of global security and development: Convergence, Divergence and Coherence
This paper discusses the gaps in the present international system that in the final analysis threaten the objectives of conflict management. It asks if there is the interest and institutional will within the international community to close such gaps. It poses this challenge from the perspective of coherence. As noted in companion pieces to this study, the concept of coherence has at least four inter-related and complementary dimensions, i.e. int…
The humanitarian response costs of climate change
This research attempts to improve understanding of how climate change may affect international humanitarian spending, using existing international databases that track disaster occurrence and humanitarian costs. A range of potential impact scenarios is developed employing four distinct methodological approaches. The findings indicate that climate change will have a significant impact on humanitarian costs and the increase could range from a 32 pe…
Planning from the future: An emerging agenda
In the foreseeable future, it is more than likely that the types, dimensions, and dynamics of crisis drivers will increase dramatically, in some instances exponentially. While a growing number of organizations with humanitarian roles and responsibilities sense that such changes are afoot, few have looked at how these might fundamentally affect not only what they do but also how they do it. This article suggests that it is time for humanitarian or…
The future of warfare: Are we ready
To what extent do the ways in which we anticipate threats, analyze their possible consequences and determine ways to mitigate them explain the causes of warfare in the future? This article – though never attempting to predict – poses plausible causes of future wars that may stem from transformative change over the next two decades. In asking the question “Are we ready?” to deal with such wars, the answer is framed in terms of the interrelationshi…
Towards the Governance of Global Systemic Risk: Reforming the Summit of the Future
The UN ’s Summit of the Future and subsequent Pact for the Future were finalized in September 2024. Their purpose was to enhance international cooperation to deal with existential global risks and, towards that end, address the weaknesses of multilateral governance. This paper suggests that such complex risks have been largely unaddressed in the Summit and in the Pact . Such risks pose an intensifying global challenge. A commitment to meet that c…
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