International institutions

This is a major new reader that brings together and assesses the most influential scholarly contributions that have fashioned the debate on European integration over the past 50 years.

Since the mid-2000s, the European Union has made unprecedented strides toward the creation of a common energy policy.

Through the application of public opinion, interview, and print-media analyses, this book provides evidence that the state of transnational identification among citizens in the EU as a result of post-Maastricht integration measures, such as the completion of the Common Market, the introduction of the Euro, the initiation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy etc.

How does policy-making trigger the institutionalization of steering capacities?

A primer to terrorist financing and resourcing, this book examines what terrorist organizations must acquire in order to survive and operate, and describes the various means used to meet these needs.

The crisis that nearly brought the world's financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widespread deception, corruption and lack of accountability.

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

Why was NAFTA not extended, even after fulfilling several stated objectives?

During the transition to democracy, states have used various mechanisms to address previous human rights abuses including trials, truth and reconciliation commissions and internationalized tribunals.

This book comes out of a conference in April of 1999 at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University on the topic of 'Gender Parity and the Liberal Tradition: Proposals and Debates in Europe and the United States.

This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European Union, and provides a tapestry of cases that illustrate minority politics and activism, contestations over identity and difference, and the construction of new meanings of European citizenship.

This book argues that the World Bank, far from being a unitary actor, is fundamentally plural, internally fragmented and dispersed, with cascading chains of delegation, authority and controls, and with considerable discretion delegated to the staff.

The events of September 11 2001 have altered the course of arms control intended to eliminate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has made the role of international organizations controversial.

A timely investigation into the conditions that make international agreements-and the institutions that enforce them-vulnerable.

Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice employs the concept of coloniality to examine the relationship between global environmental governance and environmental justice.

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.

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) was established in December 2005 to develop outlines of best practice in post-conflict reconstruction, and to secure the political and material resources necessary to assist states in transition from conflict to peacetime.

The world is on the cusp of a global turn.

From Global to Grassroots looks at how transnational activism aimed at combating violence against women is used to instigate changes in local practice.

The world is on the cusp of a global turn.

Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary combines primary materials with expert commentary demonstrating the interaction between law and practice in the UN organization, as well as the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions in general.

The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 at the United Nations provides a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963.

The volumes included in The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 at the United Nations provide a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963.

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 conflict-affected regions, delays in international response can have life or death consequences.

The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system.

Latin America is a region made up of multiple states and societies with a diversity of races, ethnicities, and cultures.

Latin America is a region made up of multiple states and societies with a diversity of races, ethnicities, and cultures.

In order for transparency measures to fight corruption, they must be paired with enforcement.

The relationship between populism and democracy is contested among scholars.

The relationship between populism and democracy is contested among scholars.

Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia.

Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia.

The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies, focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens.

The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies, focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens.

Migrants fleeing economic hardship or violence are entitled to a range of protections and rights under domestic and international law, yet they are often denied such protections in practice.

Migrants fleeing economic hardship or violence are entitled to a range of protections and rights under domestic and international law, yet they are often denied such protections in practice.

Where do strong conservative parties come from?

Where do strong conservative parties come from?

East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production.

East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production.

When the Soviet Union pulled its forces out of Afghanistan, the American media had a simple explanation: Soviet troops had been hounded out of the mountains by U.

The American public has become increasingly disenchanted with the United Nations.

The Internal Market Act 2020 provides the foundation for freedom of trade within the UK following Brexit.

This last decade has been particularly turbulent for the EU.

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Where does Europe begin and end?

Where does Europe begin and end?

Trade agreements have become politicized in part because of public concerns that trade rules constrain regulatory decisions.

Trade agreements have become politicized in part because of public concerns that trade rules constrain regulatory decisions.