International institutions

In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works and explores its successes, failings, and current limitations.

The Incontinent Continent tries to show how the EU has allowed politicians to create a separate world where instead of serving their constituents, they serve each other.

This book expands on the existing literature on the international dimension of democratization by introducing the concept of democracy projection.

Developing countries have made rapid but highly varied progress since the 1990s.

This concise yet comprehensive volume gives a compelling introduction to the politics, society, economy and culture of France.

This edited volume examines the competitive dynamics of two order-building projects in the Indo-Pacific, namely China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the US-led Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP).

This book sketches an institutional political economy framework to discuss the interaction between development and foreign policy in the global South with reference to Turkey.

This book presents a comparative analysis of political governance and includes case studies from various African countries.

This edited volume examines the competitive dynamics of two order-building projects in the Indo-Pacific, namely China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the US-led Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP).

This book deals with the questions of how global governance can and ought to effectively address serious global problems, such as financial instability, military conflicts, distributive injustice and increasing concerns of ecological disasters.

Why is the EU so reliant upon exchanges with interest organisations?

This book examines the nature and implications of the increasing interaction among three secondary powers in the world: China, Russia and India.

This edited collection examines changes in national security culture in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security.

Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this collection explores the internationalization process of social rights, in a number of national and international contexts.

Using a unique analytical framework, the UN Secretariat's Influence on the Evolution of Peacekeeping reveals deep insights in the UN's peacekeeping decision-making and shows that even international bureaucracies with limited autonomy can shape international politics.

Winner: Templer Medal Book PrizeIn 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history.

Is it ever possible to separate humanitarian action from politics?

La creación de la Unión Europea es uno de los procesos históricos más importantes de la Historia moderna pues supuso la superación de muchos problemas y antagonismos en un continente siempre enfrentado a sí mismo y escenario de numerosas conflagraciones.

Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa.

Saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war was the main motivation for creating the United Nations.

Si en América Latina las leyes destinadas a eliminar la corrupción, el clientelismo electoral, la discriminación racial o la violencia contra la mujer, a redistribuir los ingresos a los pobres o a proteger el medio ambiente efectivamente se cumplieran a lo largo del tiempo, las consecuencias sociales y políticas serían impactantes.

"Algo huele mal en Dinamarca", la frase que pronuncia el centinela Marcelo en Hamlet se torna gráfica para expresar las causas y consecuencias de la corrupción.

In 2015, Singapore marks the 50th anniversary of its independence, and the United Nations (UN) the 70th anniversary of its founding.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) features prominently in today's media.

Asia and Europe have become increasingly interconnected over the last few decades; this growth in mutual interest is due largely to their economic, political, cultural, and historical ties to one another.

The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules.

This book examines the economic, political and security interests of India, Europe and the European Union towards Asia.

On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding.

ASEAN 50: Regional Security Cooperation through Selected Documents curates key official documents that establish ASEAN as the foundation of Southeast Asia's peace and security.

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.

Relying on micro-evidence on the repercussions of civil conflicts, this edited book explores theories and policies of post-conflict peacebuilding.

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 explores the establishment process, mechanism design, and role orientation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under the new background of global economic governance.

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

This book puts forward a new angle of understanding the society of states in the milieu of the contemporary world.

This book reviews Southeast Asia's National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights.

This timely book explores economic, political, social, and cultural impacts of the COVID-19.

This book analyses the fifteen-year-long strategic partnership between NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

This book explores the transformation of India's relations with Central and Eastern Europe from being a subset of Indo-Soviet relations during the Cold War to the rediscovery and rebuilding of relations with the region almost from scratch in the post-Cold War era.

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