International institutions

This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit.

Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, this book explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shape human lives and transformative politics in marginal areas of the global economy.

Originally published in 1989, this book reviews the history of maritime control measures from before the First World War and provides a critical examination of both the objectives of maritime power and the concepts of disarmament, peace zones, parity, verifiability and peaceful co-existence.

Based on four years of embedded observation in the cabinet of a European Commissioner, this book develops a sociology of international political work.

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage?

This volume examines the prosecution as an institution and a function in a dozen international and hybrid criminal tribunals, from Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court.

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era.

In this third edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia, Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the evolution of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management.

This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda.

A unique insider account of the creation of the Euro by one of its principal architects.

First published in 1997, This book presents a detailed analysis of the Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) policy process.

This book examines a particular type of donor behavior - known as country earmarking of contributions - which occurs within the voluntary financing system of the United Nations.

This is the era of flexibility.

This text is the best introduction to the history, institutions, actors, processes and challenges of European Foreign Policy.

Both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) are now about to close.

The widening and deepening of the European Union have brought to the fore the question of democracy at the European level.

This textbook provides an explanatory and contextual view of EU law and its impact in a simple and easily accessible yet analytical manner.

With the Lisbon Treaty in place and the European Union increasingly involved in international crisis management and stabilization operations in places near and far, this volume revisits the trajectory of a European strategic culture.

Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe's new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth.

This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems.

This book looks at migrant landing spaces, exploring the processes and infrastructures which people encounter as they navigate urban spaces along the central Mediterranean route.

This book examines the strategic implications of fragmented global governance by institutions for African states and their coalitions.

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.

Inquires into the role of the unexpected in world politics by examining the protean power effects of agile innovation and improvisation.

The states from Central and Eastern Europe that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 provide a fascinating series of case studies for scholars interested in politics, IR and development studies.

The collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria begs the question as to why that country so lacked institutional and organized capacity that the Syrian state melted away.

New chapter on judicial organs of international organizations; updated chapter on dispute settlement.

IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on the mitigation of climate change for researchers, students, and policymakers.

A study of the international NGO advocacy for social and environmental justice, it looks at the fundamental issues of legitimacy, accountability and democracy that such activities involve and how they are manifested.

This volume deals with the law governing the administrative implementation of European Union public policy.

This book investigates the ways governments trade money for favors at the United Nations Security Council.

Courts are context-conscious.

This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990.

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law.

This volume offers an original and theoretically grounded conceptualization and measurement of international parliamentary institutions and their role in ensuring the accountability of regional international organizations.

Public services or more precisely, to use the EU's terminology, services of general economic interest have traditionally played a vital role in the normal functioning of the society in the Member States.

In recent years the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly important role as a manager of global conflicts.

Identifies paths for legal resilience against restrictions of migrants'' rights introduced by the forces of authoritarian populism.

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

The history of United Nations peacekeeping is largely one of failure.

Der Westen unter DruckDen brutalen Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine konnte die NATO trotz ihrer Bemühungen nicht verhindern: Die Folgen des Krieges werden Europa und die Welt noch jahrelang erschüttern.

Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide.

As EU non-majoritarian bodies such as the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Central Bank grow in political influence, many have identified the pressing need to keep these bodies accountable to the repositories of the EU's democratic legitimacy.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-review mechanism, reviewing all 193 UN Member States' protection and promotion of human rights.