International institutions

Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks.

In Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts, Mukarrum Ahmed discusses the impact of Brexit upon jurisdiction, foreign judgments, and the applicable law in civil and commercial matters.

This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africa's actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the country's positions on civil and political rights, economic rights and development, social groups whose rights are frequently violated, and abuses in specific countries.

Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so.

The classic debate surrounding the prolific role of the European Union in defining spheres of competence and power relationships has long divided scholarly opinion.

In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike.

This book relies on the conceptual model of Open Government (OG), focusing on transparency and, concretely, in open data initiatives at the local government context with the aim of improving participation and collaboration.

The Element analyzes the process of monetary union in the EU.

This book provides an innovative contribution to the study of the Responsibility to Protect and Kantian political theory.

The Global Political Economy of Raul Prebisch offers an original analysis of global political economy by examining it through the ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers, leaders and personalities.

This book sketches an institutional political economy framework to discuss the interaction between development and foreign policy in the global South with reference to Turkey.

To convey the image of a responsible power willing to contribute to regional stability and cooperation, China has shifted from a single-minded preference for bilateralism to an active participation in East Asian regionalism in the recent decades.

First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European countries: representing a diversity of welfare state regimes.

Employs rich examples and illustrations to provide a clear, concise introduction to the rules and significance of the EU legal order.

This book outlines the principles behind the international law of foreign investment.

The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies, focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens.

Investigates the efficacy of the European Union''s promotion of good governance through its funding and conditionalities both within EU proper and in the developing world.

The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states.

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law.

This book provides an in depth-examination of the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the implications of that principle for the suppression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the domestic level.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of UNICEF's development and operations, whilst exploring the significance of UNICEF's achievements and the reasons behind them.

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments.

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities?

The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules.

On January 1 1995, Austria and Sweden joined the European Union (EU).

This book presents a new approach to studying the European Union's regional and global relevance.

This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding.

Over the past twenty years, the volume of international litigation and arbitration has increased exponentially.

Part of Routledge's leading Global Institutions Series, this book is a highly accessible, up-to-date introduction to the history, present and future of the G7/8 summits, exploring the role that the G8 plays and will play in global governance.

The Common Market between France, Western Germany, Italy and the 'Benelux' counties was not merely a reshuffle of tariff rates and trade agreements, but a political mile-stone in post-war history.

This eagerly awaited new edition has been significantly revised after extensive user feedback to meet current teaching requirements.

Rana Siu Inboden analyses China''s role in the international human rights regime from the early 1980s until 2017.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The EU antitrust enforcement system for several decades has been one of the most mature antitrust enforcement systems in the world.

This book examines the evolution of international political economy (IPE) as a field of study in China, detailing the evolving boundaries and the content of the field.

This book is the first to empirically study the role of non-competition interests in Article 101 TFEU enforcement.

Challenges tradition to show how developments in international relations repeat themselves; we may soon experience a return to past trends.

The future of European foreign policy is of vital significance to the developing world order.

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace.

This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements.

Foreign investors have a privileged position under investment treaties.

A beginner's guide to the United Nations which sets out the purposes and structure of this organization and also discusses how much power the UN really has and whether the need for and the role of the UN in the world is justified.

Ireland's relationship with the European Union has been determined by the behaviour, actions and discourse of political parties.

Since China adopted its 'open door' policy in 1978, which altered its development strategy from self-sufficiency to active participation in the world market, its goal has remained unchanged: to assist the readjustment of China's economy, to coordinate its modernization programs, and to improve its quality of life.

This book presents the hitherto unstudied variety of ways that human rights socialisation is attempted in the context of regional organisations, arguing that existing conceptual accounts of this phenomenon need to be expanded to best explain this diversity.

This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010.

This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development, proposing new organizational solutions to deal with the crisis of sustainability.

This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951.

Populism and Heritage in Europe explores popular discourses about European and national heritage that are being used by specific political actors to advance their agendas and to prevent minority groups from being accepted into European society.