International institutions

A well-written, stimulating.

In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans.

Linking Citizens and Parties addresses familiar questions about political representation: Are parties responsive to their core supporters or to the public in general?

What is the federal philosophy inspiring the structure of European law?

This book offers a systematic analysis of the interaction between international investment law, investment arbitration and human rights, including the role of national and international courts, investor-state arbitral tribunals and alternative jurisdictions, the risks of legal and jurisdictional fragmentation, the human rights dimensions of investment law and arbitration, and the relationships of substantive and procedural principles of justice to international investment law.

In Integrating Europe: Informal Politics and Institutional Change the author explains why the European Union (EU) member states actively surrender policy-making power to supranational authorities in unconventional ways.

This book poses two pertinent questions: First, if a European executive order is emerging, how can we empirically see it?

How do individual legislators in the European Parliament (EP) make decisions on the wide variety of policy proposals they routinely confront?

This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance.

The widening and deepening of the European Union have brought to the fore the question of democracy at the European level.

Relations between the European Union and China have grown at a sustained pace across the board in recent times, transforming the relationship from one of previous neglect into a matter of global strategic significance.

Agriculture has a small, and declining, importance in employment and income generation within the EU, but a political importance well beyond its economic impact.

Over the past decades, governments have increasingly been confronted with problems that transcend their boundaries.

As the central feature on the American political landscape, it is only natural that scholars and commentators focus on the presidency.

Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks.

It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades.

This book is a study of regime change in the context of international administration, where the United Nations and other multilateral organisations hold temporary executive authority at the domestic level.

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist?

In 2004 the European Union was enlarged with ten new member states, eight of them previously communist states in Central and Eastern Europe.

In 2005 the WTO Appellate body ruled that the United States' total prohibition on cross border gambling services was unlawful under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

It is widely accepted that the future development of environmental law depends not on further legislation, but on more effective enforcement.

A Chronology of European Security and Defence 1945-2006 is a unique and authoritative source of reference for all those with an interest in European defence and security over the last 60 years.

This book is about presidents in parliamentary systems.

External relations is currently among the most dynamic areas of EU law, its institutional structures profoundly affected by the Lisbon Treaty.

The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary Anglo-American and French political theory and defends a progressive republican solution to so-called multicultural conflicts in contemporary societies.

The volume explores the marked differences between the complex and rapidly changing legal organization of EU external relations and the EU's 'internal' constitutional order.

Increasing labour market flexibility is at the top of the European agenda.

The European Union's market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe.

This volume provides comprehensive updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China.

From its antecedents in the 1950s, successive forms of European integration were intended to be leaderless.

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.

This book explains the creation of the European Union's Security and Defence Policy - to this day the most ambitious project of peacetime military integration.

This book provides an in depth-examination of the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the implications of that principle for the suppression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the domestic level.

Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy.

International trade and investment in services are an increasingly important part of global commerce.

Human Rights between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings.

Over the past 10 years, the content and application of international trade law has grown dramatically.

With Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the European Union is embarked on a major historic political project of formidable technical complexity.

Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community.

The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability.

This book is the result of a research project carried out for the Committee of the Regions and analyses the 'state of play' of democratic practice at the subnational level in all of the European Member states.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most extensive and widely ratified international human rights treaty.

This book provides the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the events leading up to the UK seeking a massive loan from the IMF in 1976 which almost precipitated a financial crisis on a par with those of the 1930's and early post war period.

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.

How and why do institutions change?

This is the first major exploration of the United Nations Security Council's part in addressing the problem of war, both civil and international, since 1945.

Standardization and harmonization of accounting practices is a fundamental element of a global business environment.

This book seeks to comprehend the evolving nature of the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of the European Constitution.

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade?

This book provides the first comparative treatment of the roles of informal ad hoc groupings of states within selected conflict settings and their effects on governance in and out of the UN Security Council.