International institutions

This book explores the extent to which the EU, and its Member States, are responsible for violations of international law.

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, the world has faced its biggest shared test since the Second World War in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Memory and the future of Europe examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union.

This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System.

In light of their geographical proximity and crucial strategic importance, the European Union (EU) has long identified cooperation with the countries of the Mediterranean region a central priority of its external relations and has developed a complex set of policies and instruments.

European Union Governance and Policy Making introduces Canadian students to the politics of the EU.

This book examines the recent changes in strategic stability, caused by the collapse of the international security architecture.

Drawing on the author's personal experience, this book presents an insider's chronology and policy analysis of the EU's role in the nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Since 2008 many European states have experienced significant challenges in adapting to austerity, and political actors within these states have made significant changes in their discourses and practices.

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body''s 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

Advancing a constructivist conceptual approach, this book explains the surprising outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP countries).

This book investigates the politics of transatlantic trade, specifically the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.

Introduces the idea of modes of governance to compare the causes and consequences of changes in global institutions.

This book deals with the history and future of the concept of 'world peace through law' (WPTL), which advocates replacing the use of international force with the global rule of law.

A comprehensive analysis of the European Commission's general role in supervising member state compliance with EU law, this book provides a detailed assessment of centralized EU enforcement.

The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States explores the opportunities and burdens for small states of holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.

This book is structured to reflect the different questions that may arise in connection with a preliminary reference.

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience.

The implementation of disarmament requirements imposed by the Security Council after the Second Gulf War established a strong and unequal power relationship between the United Nations and Iraq.

Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system.

Decades-long field research, investigate Chinese approach in Africa''s development, reinterpret classics on industrial capitalism, and reveal effects of non-linear synergism

In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S.

This comprehensive and clearly written textbook offers a long-awaited introduction to the trade policy of the European Union, the world's largest trading entity.

Andrew Williams analyses the role of values in the European Union and suggests how to make the EU more just.

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.

Mark Dawson analyses how non-binding ''new governance'' methods are transforming EU social law and policy.

This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.

This new textbook provides an introduction to humanitarian protection, a field of study concerned with international responses to armed conflict, political violence, and humanitarian crisis.

The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator.

The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).

This collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners to assess the processes, institutions and outcomes of the EU's collective diplomatic engagement in the fields of security, human rights, trade and finance and environmental politics.

Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production.

The research presented in this book provides a stakeholder analysis of human rights protection at a time when the region appears to be regressing into an insidious and deep authoritarianism.

Sport governance has become an increasingly widespread subject for research and teaching in sports studies.

This volume is comprised of over 2,300 annotations on a wide array of issues and topics germane to the subject of preventing the atrocities of genocide and managing these conflicts when they do arise.

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

The world has vowed "e;Never again"e; in memory of the 800,000 Rwandans and other groups slaughtered by genocidaires.

This interdisciplinary book investigates the problematization of global challenges in world politics by analyzing what they are and how they come to be.

This book examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU).

The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state.

The phenomenon of 'agencification' describes the EU legislator's increasing establishment of European agencies to fulfil tasks in a variety of EU policies.

During the Cold War, the U.

This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do.

This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the UN Security Council by analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of these proposals would actually create a representative and more effective Security Council.

NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy is an empirically and theoretically rich account of how international non-governmental organisations produce knowledge of and formulate understandings about the world around them.

This book shows that political narratives can promote or thwart the prospects for international cooperation and are major factors in international negotiation processes in the 21st century.

The European Union's (EU) fundamental principles on free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of the welfare state.

This book is a groundbreaking study of the emergence of a unique African Union legal system, with contributions from a diverse collection of scholars and practitioners.