International institutions

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.

This book examines the European Union (EU) coordination of the G7, G8 and G20 (Gx).

In The Simple Art of Voting, Delia Baldassarri provides a new understanding of how voting works by focusing on how choices are made rather than on what their outcomes are.

In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent's history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike.

The result of a four-year long comparative research study centered at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and financed by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, Social Pacts in Europe presents the first full-length theoretical and comparative empirical study of new social pacts in Europe.

Europe's transformations is the unifying theme for this collective work that brings together leading academics and policy makers from across Europe and beyond.

Environmental Integration in Competition and Free-Movement Laws engages in a comprehensive analysis of the obligation of Article 11 TFEU (integration of environmental protection requirements) in the three core areas of EU internal market law: competition, state aid, and free movement.

In less than 100 years, international organizations have evolved from curiosities into keystones of international law.

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis.

This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives and actions of the government; 2) a good governance standpoint that exposes lapses in health governance and the general unpreparedness of the government and international community to deal with the outbreak; 3) a scientific research standpoint that looks at the role played by the Sierra Leone's Lassa Fever Research Laboratories as a main hub for the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of communicable diseases in the Mano River Union countries; and 4) an international politics standpoint that examines the development of a new bio-security international apparatus involving a wide range of international actors and institutions.

Fighting Terrorism and Drugs is an examination of European states in their fight against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960s up to the present day.

Heart of the Nation traces America's volunteer traditionthe golden thread of American democracyand how Presidents from Washington to Obama have called on citizens to serve neighbor and nation.

Originally published in the UK in 1956, this book presents the essence of the political philosophy of one of Europe's best-known post-war statesmen, as well as his experience in government as head of Germany in one of its most critical periods of history.

This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the 'Responsibility to Protect'.

This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games.

The tension between the aim of creating sustainable multilateral region-building dynamics and the need to find more differentiated and flexible forms of cooperation has been ever-present in Euro-Mediterranean relations.

This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.

The Handbook of European Security Law and Policy offers a holistic discussion of the contemporary challenges to the security of the European Union and emphasizes the complexity of dealing with these through legislation and policy.

Great-power conflict and great-power war are still the most dangerous risks the international community is facing today.

This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the contested meaning, scope of application, value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to Protect .

European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization.

This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widely employed and misrepresented.

This book is the concise story of NATO.

This book examines the puzzle of why some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others refrain from trying to do so - or even renounce them.

This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.

This book aims to examine the conceptions and practices of security adopted by Regional Organisations (ROs) across the globe.

There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia.

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but others endure?

The United States-Australia alliance has been an important component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945.

Why are there so many crises in the world?

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions.

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.

The politics of international trade have changed dramatically over the past 20 years.

The security concerns of the United Nations today extend far beyond what the writers of the 1945 Charter could have imagined.

Richard Falk has dedicated much of his life to the study of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart.

'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish TimesA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us.

This study presents the case for an international banking standard (IBS) to deal with the rash of banking crises in developing countries.

Die Fremdsprachensekretärin Sabine Greubel die die Stelle als Privatsekretärin eines etwas mysteriösen Rechtsanwaltes und Immobilienunternehmers an, wodurch sie Zugang zu Kreisen erhält, die sich über Recht und Gesellschaft wähnen.

Why do human beings fight one another?

"e;I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone.

A fascinating account of a remarkable life that took the author, through hard work and determination, from rural England to the highest ranks of the United Nations Dame Margaret Anstee was born in the 1920s to a poor family in rural Essex.

"e;I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone.

This is not a book about politics.

Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation.

'Excellent' Sunday TimesBrexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War.

An Independent Book of the MonthFeatured in Vogue Arabia Featured by Vanity Fair Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand after the Christchurch attack.

An Independent Book of the MonthFeatured in Vogue Arabia Featured by Vanity Fair Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand after the Christchurch attack.