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.

The book explores the impact of recent WTO accession experiences on the development of the multilateral trading system.

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

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

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

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

Provides insight into how diverse societies observe and respond to changing environments, for those interested in climate science, policy and adaptation.

Provides insight into how diverse societies observe and respond to changing environments, for those interested in climate science, policy and adaptation.

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

Provides comprehensive coverage of basic and contemporary issues of the law of the sea in a systematic manner.

Focuses on the four individuals who created the world''s first international tribunals and how they sought justice for millions of victims.

Provides comprehensive coverage of basic and contemporary issues of the law of the sea in a systematic manner.

Focuses on the four individuals who created the world''s first international tribunals and how they sought justice for millions of victims.

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.

World''s foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students.

World''s foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students.

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

This handbook offers a detailed explanation of the rules and procedures of the WTO dispute settlement system.

The first comprehensive overview of international immunity law, offering an essential work of reference for scholars, practitioners and legal advisors.

The first comprehensive overview of international immunity law, offering an essential work of reference for scholars, practitioners and legal advisors.

This handbook offers a detailed explanation of the rules and procedures of the WTO dispute settlement system.

A new history of the idea of the modern state and its ''personality'', showing the centrality of Pufendorf to its development and propagation.

A new history of the idea of the modern state and its ''personality'', showing the centrality of Pufendorf to its development and propagation.

The first single-authored account of the international law of energy as a whole, written by a leading authority.

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.

The first single-authored account of the international law of energy as a whole, written by a leading authority.

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.

Johnston unpacks and critiques the legal, economic, and scientific basis for precautionary climate policies pursued in the United States.

This edited volume examines contemporary global discourses on trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery from a variety of perspectives.

This edited volume examines contemporary global discourses on trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery from a variety of perspectives.

Are we safer from terrorism today and is our homeland security money well spent?

This book considers critics of international criminal law concerning normative concepts of legitimacy, sovereignty, responsibility, punishment, economics, politics, evidence, and fairness.

This book addresses the joint responsibility of organisations for violations of international law committed during the deployment of peacekeeping operations.

Are we safer from terrorism today and is our homeland security money well spent?

This book considers critics of international criminal law concerning normative concepts of legitimacy, sovereignty, responsibility, punishment, economics, politics, evidence, and fairness.

This book addresses the joint responsibility of organisations for violations of international law committed during the deployment of peacekeeping operations.

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

An analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century.

An analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century.

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

This book challenges our understanding of the true role and impact of the World Trade Organization.

This book challenges our understanding of the true role and impact of the World Trade Organization.

Provides a multi-perspective study of the international law on self-defence against non-State actors.