Public international law: international organizations and institutions

Today''s economic and social context demands that corporations - once seen only as private actors - owe duties to the public.

Critically examines whether and how local and experimental action can deliver significant and transformative ways of tackling climate change.

This book develops ''Collective Equality'' as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace and for transitional justice.

Examines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms at the intersection between international relations and international law.

An International Court of Civil Justice would give victims of multinationals a day in court while offering corporate defendants a cheaper, fairer litigation alternative.

The WTO provides tools to address China''s state capitalism and should be the preferred forum for negotiations on SOE''s and industrial subsidies.

The book offers a systematic discussion of the facets of the relationship between the European Union and customary international law.

Moving past theoretical critiques of human rights, this book considers how we might translate situational analyses of torture into effective strategies for preventing it.

Discusses how an analogy between States and international organizations has influenced the development of international law.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

Applying insights from cutting-edge theories of international cooperation, this study brings new understanding to China''s approach to contemporary global challenges.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.

Countering mainstream theories, this book focuses on the expanding institutionalisation of international law.

This book represents the first comprehensive analysis of NGO participation at international criminal and human rights courts.

Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.

Explores the contributions of international courts and tribunals in terms of performance by offering a comparative analysis of international courts.

Offers an analysis of cooperation between international organizations and private actors in creating transnational regulation.

An analysis of the role of the interplay between formality and informality in shaping the current state of international law.

This study of military routines is vital for understanding why soldiers from Western democracies participating in multinational missions vary in their use of force.

What does it mean to be resilient in an international context?

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

Develops a theory of collaborative capitalism that produces economic stability for businesses and workers in American urban cores.

Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.

An interdisciplinary volume exploring the concept of legitimacy in relation to international courts and what can drive and weaken it.

This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa''s civil wars.

Soldiers rebel when leaders attempt to build or dismantle ethnic armies, posing a deep challenge to contemporary democratization efforts.

Explores which laws and actors govern the negotiation, interpretation and implementation of peace agreements to settle intra-state conflicts.

Argues that the Eurasian steppe political tradition has been globally influential, particularly in the socio-political formation of modern Russia and Turkey.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.

Contributes to a better understanding of the policy, economic, and legal options of countries struggling with debt problems.

Responds to current world events and offers ''a rich resource for initiating new conversations about potential futures for the trade regime''.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

This book critically analyses the origins, the creation, and the evolution of an international law on investment contract protection.

Investigates the relationship between international organizations and private subjects under the unexplored perspective of procurement by international organizations.

A guide to the meaning of environmental regulation in an era of transnational cooperation for sustainability.

The first in-depth scholarly analysis of the effects of Western sanctions, and Russia''s response on the Russian economy.

Looks at international negotiation from a novel, relational international law perspective and challenges prescriptive models.

The first comprehensive study of the distinction between justification and excuse under the international law of state responsibility.