International institutions

This book explores the images and perceptions of the European Union (EU) in the eyes of one of the EU's three strategic partners in Asia in the context of its own distinct policies and identity.

This book investigates the politics of transatlantic trade, specifically the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.

Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff, the 1990 Economic Community of West Africa-Liberian Civil War Challenge, and the 1990-91 European Communities-Balkans Crisis.

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states.

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid.

This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School's conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external action.

This short monograph examines the tense relationship between central bank independence and democratic legitimation, which has changed as the European Central Bank (ECB) has been entrusted with new tasks and faced unprecedented challenges.

This book critically engages with NATO's two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals.

This book takes a new approach to answering the question of how NATO survived after the Cold War by examining its complex relationship with the United States.

Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system.

This book provides a holistic view on the topics of peace and conflict, peace education, international relations and regional studies during the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

In June 2007, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted The EU in Central Asia: Strategy for a New Partnership, highlighting the growing importance of Central Asia to the EU.

The European Union is still emerging as a fully fledged foreign policy actor.

Since the end of the Cold War, the promotion of democracy has occupied centre stage in global politics and in the academic debate on international relations.

Attacks on humanitarian aid operations are both a symptom and a weapon of modern warfare, and as armed groups increasingly target aid workers for violence, relief operations are curtailed in places where civilians are most in need.

Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband.

The research presented in this book provides a stakeholder analysis of human rights protection at a time when the region appears to be regressing into an insidious and deep authoritarianism.

This book analyzes the shifting global economic architecture, indicating the decentralizing authority in global economic governance since the Cold War and, especially, following the 2008-09 global financial crisis.

This book examines the impact of European political conditionality on the process of democratization in Turkey over a twenty year period.

This book, Rising from the Ashes: UN Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste, provides an in-depth look into the UN's first experiment in governing and building peace in the aftermath of conflict, using East Timor as a case study.

This book examines China's participation in the United Nations (UN).

In this third edition, prominent news correspondent Linda Fasulo updates and revises her lively, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the United Nations, including candid insights from US and UN diplomats and officials as well as experts.

The book aims at informing and educating the public at large about the intricacies of the Negotiation Dynamics at the WTO.

The European Union has launched an important debate on the future of the EU budget from 2013.

Thoroughly revised and updated, a new edition of the most popular guide to the UN for students and interested readers Prominent NPR journalist Linda Fasulo's guide to the United Nations has established a reputation as the most lively, authoritative, and insightful book on its subject.

The face of international politics has changed significantly in the 21st century: it has become increasingly female.

This book examines the sanction regimes imposed by the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations against Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

By analyzing the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP's) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter on the world stage.

This book focuses on the recent rise of new regional economic institutions such as the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which were established, in part, as a result of dissatisfaction of dynamic emerging markets with global economic institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT/WTO.

This book examines the recent changes in strategic stability, caused by the collapse of the international security architecture.

The book explains the rise of BRICS as a decisive group in the present world affairs.

NATOs 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliances mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities.

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This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations.

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

This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world.

Science and technology have long been considered key for development, problem solving and education in low-income countries, and Sweden has been at the forefront of efforts in this area, as one of the first countries to formalize research aid.

Science and technology have long been considered key for development, problem solving and education in low-income countries, and Sweden has been at the forefront of efforts in this area, as one of the first countries to formalize research aid.

The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies.

Created in 1919, shortly after World War I, the League of Nations was principally designed to put an end to war.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the field of space policy.

Turn Innovative Ideas into Products and Services-and Manage and Control Them Using Project Management ToolsThe first book to integrate project management and product development, Project Management in New Product Development shows you how to manage the translation of ideas into new products and services and get them to market cheaper, better, and faster using advanced project management tools and techniques.

This book examines both how and why nonviolent civil resistance campaigns fail, and the diverse category of campaigns that fall short.

The American economy is in many ways uniquely unfettered.

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

A text in the Yale University Press Series on Basic Documents in World Politics This volume contains the full text of the United Nations Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice, as well as related historical documents.