International institutions

Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) presents a negotiation framework based on the principles of network/collaborative governance in implementing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Since the end of the last century, UN peacekeeping has undergone a fundamental and largely unexamined change.

This is the first book that explicitly outlines Asian contributions to the elaboration of universal human rights values that were proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the European Union state have dealt with two sorts of changes in the last two decades.

This book provides a timely and insightful analysis of the expansion of biofuels production and use in recent years.

As national governments continue to disagree over how to respond to the aftermath of the global financial crisis, two of the few areas of consensus were the decisions to increase the IMF's capacity to respond and remove the policies designed to limit the use of its resources.

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was the first international organization to be established after the Second World War, and Canada played a key role in its formation.

The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations).

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

How do America's democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China?

This book presents an analytical framework which assesses how 'land-for-peace' agreements can be achieved in the context of territorial conflicts between de facto states and their respective parent states.

How has contemporary humanitarianism become the dominant framework for how states construct their moral obligations to non-citizens?

The book traces the end of hostilities and the often acrimonious, sometimes naive, but always laboured negotiations towards peace and elections in Mozambique.

Explores the ''unexhausted'' potential in current investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to advance investors'' responsibility for their conduct.

This is a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies.

This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU).

After the financial crisis, what important lessons can we learn from fiscal policy?

Large or small, old EU member or new, and even EU member state or not - political economies across Southern Europe have been increasingly but distinctively 'Europeanised'.

European governments have re-discovered labour migration, but are eager to be perceived as controlling unsolicited forms of migration, especially through asylum and family reunion.

200 Betrachtungen – über Corona-Pandemie, Klimaproblematik und Ukraine-Krise.

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.

Political scientists have always accorded interest organizations a prominent place in European Union (EU) policy-making because they connect the EU institutions to citizens, provide important information to EU policy-makers, and control resources that impact on the problem-solving capacity of EU policies.

In der dynamischen und schnell wachsenden Wirtschaft Saudi-Arabiens sind solide Geschäftsbeziehungen der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

The third edition of European Business is published at a time of turbulence in Europe.

The course of events since the implementation of NAFTA has had unexpected elements with significant impacts on North American integration.

With Brexit looming, a major issue facing UK Higher Education is whether the UK will be able to stay in the Erasmus Programme.

This book, first published in 1972, offers a detailed analysis of the post-war formulation of foreign policy, as Britain sought to detach itself from its imperialist past and moved towards a European future.

Numerous historical and political processes and dynamics have led to the emergence of ethnic minority groups in Central and Eastern Europe, each with its own long history and identity.

This book of essays,the product of a conference held at the University of Birmingham in the spring of 1998, contains contributions from a group of extremely distinguished scholars in the fields of both public and private law.

Cases such as the Maastricht ruling by the German Federal Constitutional Court or the 'Crotty; decision by the Irish Supreme Court have gone down in the history of European integration as outstanding examples of intervention by judicial actors in important political processes.

This edited book examines European external interventions in human security, in order to illustrate the evolution and nature of the European Union as a global political actor.

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international diplomacy, and the challenges and opportunities it presents for the future of multilateralism.

This Element investigates the extent of regional organizations'' authority over security and human rights in Africa and Latin America.

This textbook deals with the progressive global dissolution of political, economic, and social boundaries, which has significant implications for labor markets, the international division of labor, social security, and income distribution.

This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

Amid a global health crisis, the process for declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is at a crossroads.

This timely new work provides a thorough overview, analysis, and discussion of standard terms control for banking and financial contracts in Europe.

In recent years the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly important role as a manager of global conflicts.

European Contract Law unification projects have recently advanced from the Draft Common Frame of Reference (2009) to a European Commission proposal for an optional Common European Sales Law (2011) which is to facilitate cross-border marketing.

This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century.

The role of the United Nations in collective security has been evolving since its inception in 1945.

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a key actor in the global investment regime since the 1980s.

Wiedemann reveals how the rise of financial markets as private alternatives to welfare states transforms social rights and responsibilities.

Presents a series of distinct sociological inquiries into the formation of contemporary European law and society.

This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons.

The struggle for women's rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations.

For three decades multiculturalism has been the focus of fierce debates.