International institutions

This book makes the case for a standing UN Emergency Peace Service.

In the aftermath of the Cold War there has been a dramatic shift in thinking about the maintenance of peace and security on a global level.

Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so.

There have been dramatic changes to the landscape of European security in the twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

This book examines the issue of nuclear disarmament in different strategic, political, and regional contexts.

The European Union has developed a wide array of external relations with its neighbouring countries.

This book analyzes Palestine's acceptance as a State in multilateral frameworks and its legal consequences.

Multi-level governance systems like the European Union (EU) calibrate integration with member state discretion in order to implement common, yet context-sensitive solutions to shared policy problems.

This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and ideational contributions of five countries to the regional architecture of post-Cold War Asia.

This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations.

This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance.

The first book-length study of the importance of collateral frameworks in monetary policy, focusing on the Eurozone and euro crisis.

An excellent new analysis of federalism and the EU that investigates their mutual impact.

This book constitutes a timely and unique interdisciplinary endeavour in law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle inequalities between, across, and within European societies and states.

The first integrated analysis of the causes and effects of diverging views of drug use within the international community.

Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond.

This book presents the hitherto unstudied variety of ways that human rights socialisation is attempted in the context of regional organisations, arguing that existing conceptual accounts of this phenomenon need to be expanded to best explain this diversity.

What does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)?

Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries, this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates, maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions.

This volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies.

This book represents an unusual intervention in debates about the nature of contemporary international development, where the majority of scholarship tends to concern itself with measuring or collating goal performance.

Following the Lisbon Treaty, the powers of the European Parliament in external relations have gradually expanded and it is increasingly influencing the foreign policy of the European Union.

This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and the EU as a security actor.

This volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between the European Union and International Organizations, and to fill a remarkably wide gap in existing literature on the topic.

The crisis in Ukraine that began in November 2013 constitutes a turning point in Euro-Atlantic security with potential global repercussions.

This book offers a new approach to the study of EU law of external relations.

This Element discusses institutional cooperation in populist foreign policy and its implications for the Liberal International Order.

Contesting Global Order traces dominant values and patterns on a world level over the last half century.

A comparative study contributing to international relations and international political economy theory, raising substantive issues relating to aid, development, international relations and globalization.

This book investigates various dimensions of the economic conflicts between the US - and other democratic market-economy countries - and state-capitalist communist China in the past decade, examining how differences in institutions and ideology bring these about.

This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).

Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind.

Moving beyond most conventional thinking about energy security in Europe which revolves around stability of supplies and the reliability of suppliers, this book presents the history of European policy-making regarding energy resources, including recent controversies about shale gas and fracking.

This book takes stock of learning theories in the European Union (EU) integration literature and assesses what insights the concept of 'learning' has added to our understanding of the European integration processes.

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.

This book examines the involvement of Portugal in the European integration process since the country signed the Accession Treaty in 1985.

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization.

Linda Polman's We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out with the UN goes in is an eye-opening account of peace-keeping operations across the globe.

This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.

This book shows how international organizations have a greater capacity to violate human rights, but also take on responsibility to avert such harm.

Introduces an alternative framework to explain how international institutions influence national policies.

An EU and European nation-state perspective on the major policy issues in Europe since 1945.

Small states are dependent on the economic, political, and societal shelter provided by larger states and international organizations to survive and prosper.

New Dimensions of World Politics (1975) examines the changes to world politics as bankers, industrialists and scientists have taken more influence over world affairs from diplomats and soldiers.

The gradual legal and political evolution of the European Union has not, thus far, been accompanied by the articulation or embrace of any substantive ideal of justice going beyond the founders' intent or the economic objectives of the market integration project.

The role of the European Union (EU) in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and its 'near abroad' has attracted much scholarly attention over the past few years.

Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy provides the inside view of the negotiations that produced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Do countries keep their promises to the international community?

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