International institutions

In this important new book, McCormick argues that the EU has become an economic and political superpower, whose new global role calls into doubt most of the recent assessments of unipolarity in world politics and American 'Empire'.

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

This book offers a portrait of the practice of monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding in the domain of international law.

Why do US and EU think tanks diverge in their roles, priorities, and main constituencies?

Immigration Reform is an in-depth discussion of immigration reform in America.

Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically focused outfit into a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activities related to human mobility.

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy.

This book critically engages with the concepts of small states and soft power and advances a new approach to defining small states, a new conceptualisation of soft power, and a method for empirically analysing the exercise of soft power.

In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures.

Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community.

Asia is a complex and diverse continent, which has seen the scope and pace of transformation increase rapidly over the past 30 years.

An engaging introduction to the core concepts, theories, actors and issues in global politics.

This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century.

This book deals with the questions of how global governance can and ought to effectively address serious global problems, such as financial instability, military conflicts, distributive injustice and increasing concerns of ecological disasters.

Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory studies, anthropology and studies of emotion.

This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance.

This book analyses the multidimensional influence of COVID-19 on world politics, with a special focus on Euro-Asian relations, as well as changes in Europe caused by the pandemic.

This friendly, concise and up-to-date introduction to the European Union is essential reading for those new to the study of Europe.

This book is an introduction to the business laws of the European Union for exporters and those without legal training.

At the heart of the European Union is the establishment of a European market grounded in the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital.

EU policy shapes all areas of our lives - from our money, to our food, to our welfare.

Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries, this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates, maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions.

The first cross-regional study to show that populism can have both positive and negative effects on democracy.

A collection of expert essays analysing the AFSJ and its implications from the point of view of fundamental rights.

Out of the social and economic turmoil of Europe in the 1930s, the Popular Front emerged as the spearhead of the left's bid to stop fascism in its tracks.

China's emergence in Africa is the most significant development for the continent since at least the end of the Cold War.

Emergency Powers of International Organizations explores emergency politics of international organizations (IOs).

This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security.

This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union as it departs from its path of integration.

The European Union (EU) is a continuously evolving entity.

This book takes a new approach to answering the question of how NATO survived after the Cold War by examining its complex relationship with the United States.

The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts.

This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.

The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania).

The European Union (EU) is at the forefront of engaging in external trade relations outside of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with entire regions and economic powerhouses.

The book presents a model of interaction effects between policymakers and the media which can shed light on the former's ability to enhance democratic legitimacy in foreign policy decision-making.

Delivering a ground-breaking analysis of the EU's diplomatic meetings (or dialogues) with China, this book reveals how the EU's values rarely feature in exchanges, due to ingrained cultures of complacency and self-censorship amongst EU officials.

This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century.

At the turn of the century the regional-global security partnership became a key element of peace and security policy-making.

Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU's public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective.

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.

United Nations peacekeeping has undergone radical transformation in the new millennium.

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.

The enlargement of European-based organisations has reached a near terminal point.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse.

Provides up-to-date, accessible, and intellectually sophisticated insights on EU Law using real-life examples and current case studies.

Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates?

The most comprehensive and critical analysis of the application of European consensus by the European Court of Human Rights.