International institutions

This textbook, the first comprehensive comparative study ever undertaken, surveys and compares the world's ten largest diplomatic services: those of Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s.

This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).

In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan.

In 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) became part of the United Nations.

This book explores the emergence of an ius puniendi outside state criminal law and beyond international criminal law.

With existing literature focusing largely on Western perspectives of peace and their applications, a global understanding of peace is much needed.

This book examines a crucial question about small states and their governments' influence in the European Union (EU) decision-making processes.

This book discusses the role of gender and participation within the context of budgeting and planning.

This book presents a case study of human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK, with a focus on practical measures for ending this trafficking.

This book explores the involvement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the issue area of environmental and disaster displacement.

This book builds on the six years of hands-on experience that the author had while working in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

This book offers the first in-depth account of the United Kingdom's contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975.

This book focuses on the European Union as an important actor in international relations and international political economy.

This book presents a new approach to studying the European Union's regional and global relevance.

This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative.

This book accounts for transformations in the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)during fifteen years of operations (2001-2016), and argues that the EU evolved into a softer and more civilian security provider, rather than a military one.

This book proposes that the European Union should craft a grand strategy to navigate the new world order based on a four-pronged approach.

The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

This book offers a theoretically informed study of recent Chinese initiatives to provide forms of regional economic governance; or as it is often termed in Chinese discourses, regional "e;public goods"e;.

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace.

This book examines the practice of international election observation in a Caribbean context.

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN's politics of selective humanitarian intervention.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This book explores post-Soviet Eurasian regional security governance, as embedded in the military alliance of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

This book presents novel theoretical and empirical findings on the issue of unrecognized states and secession.

In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "e;transit,"e; "e;destination,"e; "e;European,"e; "e;Muslim"e; and "e;safe.

This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution's first decade.

This book is a researched study of land issues in American Samoa that analyzes the impact of U.

This volume summarizes, synthesizes, updates, and contextualizes Turkey's multiple roles in global governance.

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years.

Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies.

International Organizations (IOs) were designed to provide global public goods, among which security for all, trade for the richest, and development for the poorest.

This thought-provoking book, edited by Jing Huang and Alexander Korolev, redefines the complex political and economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region.

This book is more than an autobiographical account of the career of a young graduate from Australia who spent his life working as a United Nations official.

At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice.

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citizens' support.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book focuses on current key issues of international security from an actor-centered approach.

This book examines the institutions that are producing consumer law at the international level, the substantive issues enshrined in these laws, and the enforcement mechanisms meant to ensure effective protection.

This book analyses whether European leaders are able to deal with the 'hard power' problems of military provocation, mass migration, and terrorism.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders.

This book provides a comprehensive study into the promotion of regional integration as a central pillar of European Union (EU) relations with the rest of the world.

This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives and actions of the government; 2) a good governance standpoint that exposes lapses in health governance and the general unpreparedness of the government and international community to deal with the outbreak; 3) a scientific research standpoint that looks at the role played by the Sierra Leone's Lassa Fever Research Laboratories as a main hub for the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of communicable diseases in the Mano River Union countries; and 4) an international politics standpoint that examines the development of a new bio-security international apparatus involving a wide range of international actors and institutions.

This book analyses trends and changes in the European Union's (EU) humanitarian aid policy, by focusing on the performance of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs).

This volume analyzes the corruption phenomenon in Africa and how to combat it from a governance perspective with illustrated case studies from three of the most corrupt of those nations covering, respectively, the Southern Africa region (Swaziland); the Eastern Africa region (Kenya); and the Western Africa region (Nigeria).

This volume offers systematic research on regionalism in Africa and explores the role and impact of external partners on the dynamics, institutional design, and performance of regional integration projects.