International institutions

Does the EU matter in international security?

Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the continent's future development prospects.

An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, this study of the role of the ILO during 1940-70 opens up new perspectives on the significance of international organisations as actors in the history of the 20th century.

This pioneering volume invites scholars from different social science disciplines to contribute their competing perspectives to a far-ranging albeit understudied dimension of globalization.

In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.

Drawing on the fields of political economy and historical sociology, Jones dispels the overwhelming consensus among scholars that members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) never interfere in the internal affairs of other states, and pioneers a new approach to the understanding of regional politics in Southeast Asia.

With inevitable major economic and political transformations ahead, NGOs need to acknowledge and manage their policy dilemmas so that they can anticipate the many inevitable problems that consistently arise in attempting to avoid the return of war by building peace over the medium to long-term

In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these.

Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods.

This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors.

This book questions the practices in the policy processes of international institutions.

The authors explore the complex dynamics of mining and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Latin America, including a reflection on the African continent, presenting arguments and case studies based on new research on a set of urgent and emerging questions surrounding mining, development and sustainability.

EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission.

The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism.

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

Sociology of the European Union examines how core sociological theories, concepts and methods can be applied to the study of the EU.

Building on the work of philosopher John Dewey, Bray develops an approach to transnational democracy called 'pragmatic cosmopolitanism'.

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars.

This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory.

Analyses the impact of the managerial reforms of the European Commission.

In the turbulence of recent times, how we run corporations has been examined from every angle.

As the international community struggles with major issues such as deforestation, it is increasingly turning to sustainable development and market-based mechanisms to tackle environmental problems.

The book summarizes the work of international criminal courts focusing on the political challenges faced by them.

This book examines negotiations on migration in the Mediterranean.

NATO has many European and global partner countries.

Scholars and policymakers in EU foreign policy lament the EU's inability to assert itself on the world stage.

Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective.

Simon Reich presents an interpretation of the relationship between material (hard) and social (soft) power, with implications for the alternative ways these link and the impact of these linkages on the future of American policy.

This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict and examines how, in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system, their peacekeeping, mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding approaches as well as UN peace operations, and asks via an empirical and theoretical analysis, what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.

The United Nations has rarely been given a fair hearing with regard to its work in Cyprus.

As one of the most pioneering development economists, Hans Singer has stimulated many of the ideas that have engaged the attention of the world community for several decades.

The book presents a novel theory of how networks of organizations work, what varieties are possible and how their strengths and weaknesses differ.

This new edition of the established reference work provides, in the form of a dictionary, a comprehensive and balanced guide to intergovernmental institutions serving political, military, economic, social and cultural purposes.

There has been rapid proliferation of public-private partnerships in areas of human rights, environmental protection and development in global governance.

The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy.

Does EU participation in the multilateral system lead to the goal of effective multilateralism?

This book examines how the International Monetary Fund engages in the politics of ideas to shape domestic institutional change.

A study of the international NGO advocacy for social and environmental justice, it looks at the fundamental issues of legitimacy, accountability and democracy that such activities involve and how they are manifested.

This book is about how the WTO functions as a public organization.

Securing Europe takes a novel approach to Europeanization among EU member states by employing a sociological institutionalist approach.

Paul comprehensively analyzes the meaning of democratization in Southeast Asia's nation-states and how it relates to the development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN.

The book examines how hegemonic development ideas and practices emerged in the context of the changing world order post-1945 and how this transformation was characterized by neoliberalism and securitization of development and security.

The history of United Nations peacekeeping is largely one of failure.

In recent years lifelong learning has become one of the most prominent education policy goals.

Nations and their Histories highlights the importance of the past and its uses in the formation of modern nations and national identities.

This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

In this important new book, McCormick argues that the EU has become an economic and political superpower, whose new global role calls into doubt most of the recent assessments of unipolarity in world politics and American 'Empire'.

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

Behind the fa ade of democracy are a number of unanswered questions, foremost among them how to relate democracy beyond the state especially at the EU level to democracy within the state.