International institutions

As one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in international relations for more than three decades, Robert O.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice.

This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims can be accommodated by international law.

This is the first text to provide a comprehensive rule-by-rule commentary of the inception, interpretation, and application of the SIAC Rules, written by practitioners with extensive experience in South East Asia arbitrations .

Evaluates and reconsiders how the human rights of vulnerable migrants are protected through Europe''s supranational courts.

Immigration has become one of the most pressing political issues of the modern day, and public opinion polls indicate that it has been of public concern for some time.

The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding streams and ultimately determining what success looks like.

Explains how actors control access to international resources, creating a stratified international system of political equals and unequals.

This book elucidates the link between the politics of a now seemingly permanent crisis in Europe and the politicisation of European integration.

Reinventing Europe provides a thorough exploration of the history of the European Union, tracing its development from inception to recent times.

From its antecedents in the 1950s, successive forms of European integration were intended to be leaderless.

This book is based on the assumption that great powers determine global politics and, in this instance, environmental politics.

The contributors to this book examine the conceptual issues relating to the link between conflict and poverty as well as presenting case studies of countries often regarded as 'hot spots' for conflict in Africa.

This book focuses on the scope, potential and future of the India-Japan-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trilateral.

This collection focuses on regional approaches to refugee protection, and specifically upon the norms, and the norm entrepreneurs of those approaches.

The new edition of this best-selling text provides the most up-to-date single volume history of the European Union from its origins through to the present day.

This book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sows in four 'most different' African countries: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania.

THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.

An empirical assessment of whether participatory governance reforms within the EU enhance or endanger democracy.

This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events.

This book explores the foundations of the current economic crisis.

This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

This book examines the multiple strategies proposed by the international community for addressing global climate change (GCC) from both human and state-security perspectives.

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

LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness.

This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.

This book explores the interaction of the EU in Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia in three key policy sectors - cohesion, border managements and the environment - and assesses the degree to which the European Union's engagement with the democracies of South East Europe has promoted Europeanization and Multi-Level Governance.

This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field.

The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies.

This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment.

Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in 21st century, together with Russia's relations with its former Soviet neighbours - but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia's increasingly fractious relations with those institutions.

EU Trade Agreements and European Integration studies 50 bilateral trade agreements negotiated by the European Commission from 1970-2008 and how they shaped European integration.

The third edition of this successful text highlights new international trends toward global governance, nation-building, and human development, while also assessing the extraordinary challenges confronting the United Nations at this critical moment in international affairs, not least being the ubiquity of conflict in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, and the global threats of disease, climate change, and the retreat from multilateralism by the great powers.

This book examines how the United Nations Security Council, in exercising its power to impose binding non-forcible measures ('sanctions') under Article 41 of the UN Charter, may violate international law.

The G7, a self-selected club of like-minded industrialized countries, looks at first glance ill-suited to address current anti-globalist concerns.

Can open society survive?

This book discusses the role of gender and participation within the context of budgeting and planning.

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in advanced democracies.

This book compares the design and effectiveness of regional international institutions.

This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights.

This volume presents essential aspects of Mediterranean politics to be reconsidered in the light of the Arab upheavals since 2010.

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citizens' support.

The Power of Interdependence offers a convincing challenge to the dominant view among many observers of global affairs, that individual countries exert sole control over the international system.

This timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global leaders or national liabilities.

International criminal law has developed extraordinarily quickly over the last decade, with the creation of ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court.

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment.

The rights of indigenous peoples under international law have seen significant change in recent years, as various international bodies have attempted to address the question of how best to protect and enforce their rights.