International institutions

This book examines the impact of European political conditionality on the process of democratization in Turkey over a twenty year period.

This book provides a critical analysis of the politics of migration in Eastern Europe and an in-depth understanding of the role played by media and public discourse in shaping migration and migration policy.

This book aspires to establish a dialogue among the studies of sustainable development, global environmental politics, comparative regionalism, and area studies of Eurasia.

This Commentary gives a detailed description of the meaning and application of the ICSID Convention.

By analyzing the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP's) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter on the world stage.

From trade relations to greenhouse gases, from shipwrecks to cybercrime, treaties structure the rights and obligations of states, international organizations, and individuals.

This collection of research papers explores the impact of the Arab uprisings on the politics and political economy of foreign aid provision in the MENA region.

How the planet''s two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.

This comprehensive study of the rise of multinational corporations from emerging economies explores the basis of their success.

This new book provides an in-depth analysis of the projects of improvement carried out by the civilian peacebuilding missions in Bosnia and Macedonia, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault to make the case that the EU's (self-) image as a model peacebuilder conceals another side of the European Security and Defence Policy.

This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade.

This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice.

Amidst the Eurozone crisis, the European Union (EU) is stepping up its dialogue and engagement with and within Southeast Asia.

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

Partnerships between the public and private sectors are an increasingly accepted method to deal with pressing global issues, such as those relating to health.

Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics.

In spite of shared rhetorical commitments to tackling poverty worldwide, donors have varied considerably in their use of aid as an instrument for global poverty reduction.

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

This volume explores interactions between academia and different societal stakeholders with a focus on sustainability.

While Greece's debt crisis continues to dominate international headlines, the country has received remarkably little scholarly attention – especially in comparison to other European Union members.

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport.

The European Union has long played a leadership role in the global response to climate change, including the development and dissemination of climate-friendly technologies such as renewable energy.

Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy, and that areas such as trade, development, environment and energy are inextricable elements of it.

Globalization and the development of multinational organizations have led to an increase in the number of people spending part of their lives living and working in foreign countries.

The idea for this volume came from the enigma that some Central and Eastern European (CEE) European Union (EU) member states have been keen to join the Eurozone while others have shown persistent reluctance.

This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and contestation.

This book analyses the role of the African Union and regional economic communities in contributing to peacebuilding in Africa.

In life, delegation is fundamental.

Over the past 10 years, the content and application of international trade law has grown dramatically.

This book presents state-of-the-art discussions around the concentration camp Jasenovac.

This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.

Previously published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics, this volume analyzes various dimensions of the internationalized state-building process in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1995.

Presents a critical evaluation of a controversial interpretative tool the ECtHR uses to answer morally/politically sensitive human rights questions.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution and particularities of regional organizations across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe since 1945.

European Union policies are intertwined with all sectors of public administration and governance in the member states, including spatial, urban and regional planning.

This book explains cooperative and confrontational regional orders in the post-Cold War era.

This book charts the way towards a better, repurposed globalization, which it calls 'reglobalization', and shows how this can be built, incrementally but realistically, via reforms to the partial and fragile existing structures of global governance.

In 2009 and 2010, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights underwent significant reforms to their respective judicial appointments processes.

Investment arbitrators rely on sovereignty for their legal status just as investor-state disputes usually stem from disagreements about the role of the state in society.

Analyses how solutions for resolving problems in investment law contribute to addressing problems in other international legal settings, and vice versa.

In a moment where the EU is facing an important number of challenges, there is growing interest in understanding how parties influence the way Europe evolves as a political issue, notably how parties structure domestic competition over European issues and they mobilise sentiments in referenda over European integration .

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation.

Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship, this book explores African constructions of China.

The first authoritative commentary on a major new codification of the equality principle as applied to investor-state dispute settlement.

Europe is confronted by an intimidating triple challenge - economic stagnation, climate change, and a governance crisis.