International institutions

This book examines the nature of international politics in the twentieth century.

Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years.

Informed by critical theory, the essays in this collection examine the complex dynamics of globalization, the challenges that confront democracy, justice and rights under globalization, and new approaches that seek to contest the excesses of globalization and promote the struggle for global justice.

After an exploration of the experience gained by former central and eastern European countries in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Peter Naray gives an analysis of the Russian economic and social crisis and comes to the conclusion that this crisis is responsible for the delay of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

States are seen as needing to provide responses to these new challenges, but parties within those states are equally challenged.

Twenty-First Century Populism analyses the phenomenon of sustained populist growth in Western Europe by looking at the conditions facilitating populism in specific national contexts and then examining populist fortunes in those countries.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of global governance from a gendered perspective.

This volume critically examines the promise of a global civil society.

This volume offers a timely and important study on how norms are transferred from the international into the domestic domain through processes of socialization.

This book examines the economic consequences of immigration and asylum migration, it focuses on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context.

There is growing awareness of the relationship between health and development.

The key challenges of globalization are diffuse and outside the control of any one state.

The doctrine of supranationalism has been most evident in Europe, but has become increasingly a global tour de force .

NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s.

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During the 1990s the United Nations was called upon to conduct unprecedented peacekeeping and humanitarian operations in order to bring peace to war-torn states.

Dicklitch challenges the dominant discourse of neo-liberalism which places NGOs and civil society at the forefront of democratization and development in Africa.

The United Nations: Reality and Ideal examines the structure, operation and history of the United Nations.

An in-depth examination of the evolving peace and security activities of the United Nations Secretary-General in the context of developments in international politics.

This is the first book to examine in-depth the EU's relationship with the UN and to analyze critically the EU's contribution to 'effective multilateralism'.

EU-US Relations offers answers to the major questions of the future of transatlantic relations and includes almost 30 contributions from prominent worldwide scholars that assess the state of EU-US relations after the war in Iraq.

This work traces the attempts by the United Nations to bring about the reunification of Cyprus prior to the island's accession to the European Union on 1 May 2004.

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West.

This collection reflects on the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for the transatlantic alliance.

Casualties of the New World Order contends that the high rate of failure among post-Cold War UN missions are attributable to common weaknesses which are vulnerable to civil war dynamics.

There are a variety of crisis symptoms confronting the Commonwealth Caribbean as the 21st century dawns.

The book examines the current world trading regime and the prospects for freer trade in the future.

In contrast to the Cold War era the new European order is characterised by uncertainty, fluidity and new security challenges including separatism, ethnic conflict and intra-state conflict.

This book takes a new look at the Commonwealth from the founding of the Secretariat in 1965 to the 14th Commonwealth Games in 1990.

This is the personal story of Dame Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Angola and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission there from February 1992 to June 1993.

Why have states returned to the United Nations with unprecedented enthusiasm since 1987?

Since its creation the UN has been beset by the big power rivalries of the Cold War which, too often, made it ineffective.

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of the EU in UN human rights and environmental governance which addresses the legal and political science dimensions.

This book presents a study of international relations theory and the role of the United Nations in international environmental negotiations.

The first line of responsibility for children lies with their parents, but what if the parents fail to look after their children?

To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West.

This new paperback edition of Justifying Interventions in Africa includes a new preface written by Professor Annika Bjorkdahl from Lund University.

The Diplomacy of Pragmatism charts the evolution of Britain's distinctive and leading role in the formation of NATO.

This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting democracy.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly recognised as playing a significant role in the health sector in developing countries.

Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux.

Given the weaknesses of mainstream democratisation since the 1980s, the authors present a cutting edge examination of dynamics of political change in the direction of more substantive democracy.

An exploration of how the EU is influenced by multilateral institutions.

The book discusses five examples of NGO action in four countries - Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa and Sri Lanka - with authoritarian regimes.

The term 'structural adjustment' has been associated with rioting as angry and hungry masses protest food price increases due to subsidy cuts or due to other structural adjustment conditions prescribed by the IMF and the World Bank.

Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed - or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating.

EU internal security concerns such as migration, police and judicial cooperation are today part of EU foreign policy.

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities.

Friesen demonstrates how transnational CSOs and NGOs can influence the context in which international political decisions are made.

This book outlines the content of the main treaties that form the 'constitutional' basis of the European Union and analyses changes in these over time.