International institutions

Some pundits claim cyber weaponry is the most important military innovation in decades, a transformative new technology that promises a paralyzing first-strike advantage difficult for opponents to deter.

This volume examines the role of international law in shaping and regulating transitional contexts, including the institutions, policies, and procedures that have been developed to steer constitutional regime changes in countries affected by catalytic events.

This book provides a practice-based analysis of European Union (EU) diplomacy and community-building.

This book describes the current innovative tendencies characteristic of multifaceted scientific research and practical developments in the field of international business development and sustainable management.

The book analyzes some of the key issues confronted by European policy makers.

The leaders and bureaucrats of China have actively attended, initiated, promoted or made skilful use of regional multilateral political, economic, and security institutions to accelerate regional cooperation and integration with neighboring states, convince Asian states that China's rise will not threaten the regional order and their national interests, and exploit its role and diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific as a launch pad for greater influence in world affairs.

This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade.

This book argues that online harassment communities function as Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) where the collective goal is to ruin peoples' lives.

The third edition of this book incorporates more than 10 years of fascinating dynamics since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

This volume considers the most recent demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often conflict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention.

Religion is becoming increasingly important to the study of political science and to re-examine key concepts, such as democracy, securitization, foreign policy analysis, and international relations.

This new edition provides a definitive, comprehensive and systematic analysis of the law governing the EU's action in the world.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

It has become apparent that a clear gap exists between European Union (EU) level policymaking and Member State implementation.

The book outlines legal limits to the veto power of UN Security Council permanent members while atrocity crimes are occurring.

The UK and Multi-level Financial Regulation examines the role of the United Kingdom (UK) in shaping post-crisis financial regulatory reform, and assesses the implications of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.

As Africa's strategic importance has increased over the past decade and a half, United States security cooperation with the continent has expanded.

This volume considers the most recent demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often conflict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention.

This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the governance of biological threats.

This book focuses on how Indonesian civil society organisations interact with ASEAN to shape human rights institutionalisation in the region.

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

This edited volume brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development aid.

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

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

An analysis of the institutional and social movement processes that surround global infrastructure projects.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

Europe has changed radically since 1989 and continues to change at great speed.

This book traces the developments in UN peacekeeping activities since the end of the Cold War.

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings.

What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today?

Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.

Developing a processual understanding of world statehood, this book combines history, political philosophy, explanatory social science, and critical-reflexive futures studies.

Clearly discusses the impact and uses of interest representation in the development of the EU system.

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "e;democratic deficit,"e; Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies.

Why has the United States repeatedly engaged in the overthrow of foreign leaders and regimes?

This book examines the causes and consequences of social standards in US and EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs).

The UK's Brexit vote in 2016 and the inconclusive general election just 12months later have unleashed a wave of chaos and uncertainty - on the eveof formal negotiations with the EU.

This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing.

This work traces the attempts by the United Nations to bring about the reunification of Cyprus prior to the island's accession to the European Union on 1 May 2004.

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union.

This book provides a comparative-historical analysis of school politics in Norway and Germany, inspired by Rokkanian cleavage theory.

This book makes an original contribution to Russia-EU literature by analyzing constructions and trans-formations of the Russian 'Self' in relation to the European "e;Other"e;.

Details how democratic developing countries used labor repression to overcome labor union opposition to free trade.

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model.

An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai''s International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them.

Aus der Geschichte lernen, kann man nur, wenn die Geschichte richtig erzählt wird.

Providing readers with a multi-faceted assessment of the implementation of fiscal policies in the euro zone and their macroeconomic effects five years after the inception of the euro, this book, international in perspective and scope, is the first reliable reference source for discussions in this area for both academics and policy makers.