International institutions

Investigates the struggle between governments, parliaments, the people and courts over who participates in EU treaty making.

In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad rejection of the fascist past that had so scarred the continent's recent history.

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

Rules set by global governance organizations affect communities across the world.

This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union as it departs from its path of integration.

This book discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the European Union's climate and energy policy.

This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention.

The Greek Economy, first published in 1986, presents a detailed survey of the development of the Greek economy in the twentieth century.

This is a systematic, up-to-date exploration of the politics of European integration that includes balanced coverage of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union.

This volume comprehensively evaluates the current state and future reform prospects of the UN Security Council, providing the most accessible and rigorous treatment of the subject of reform to date.

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

This book examines the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the context of the global economy in the twenty-first century, arguing that many problems within the institution lie in the disparity between its design and the nature of its tasks.

Procedural review is increasingly a means of deciding European fundamental rights cases; this book explores its practical potential and limitations.

This book provides an original framework to examine how professionals control transnational issues, commonly considered the concern of organizations.

Die Klärung der Frage nach einer gemeinsamen Energieaußenpolitik der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten ist für die Europäische Union als Hochtechnologiestandort unerlässlich: Von der Warenproduktion bis hin zur alltäglichen Kommunikation ist jeder Bereich auf Elektrizität und damit auf den Import von Energieträgern wie Öl und Gas angewiesen.

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks.

This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has remained resilient despite persistent differences in the preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states.

How do we try to make the world a better place, when the challenges of poverty, disease, war, conflict, and climate change continue to impact millions of lives?

In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "e;Forgotten War"e; in Korea.

This book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations and international politics.

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, the first volume of a major work, describes the establishment of the United Nations, the controversies and debates within the organization and the political factors surrounding these during the first ten years of its life.

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 explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.

First published in 1917, Satow's Diplomatic Practice has long been hailed as a classic and authoritative text.

This book investigates the determinants of leadership in East Asia, emphasizing the significance of followership in the success and failure of leadership projects proposed by China, Japan, and the United States.

Using examples from biosafety to climate change, Jacqueline Peel examines the use and abuse of science in international risk regulation.

Many international and supranational organisations have lately been busy modernising their internal administration.

This book investigates how Europe should position itself in an era of growing Chinese-American rivalry.

This work offers a concise examination of the purpose, function and practice of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit.

This book examines lobbying in EU foreign policy-making and the activities of non-state actors (NSAs), focusing on EU foreign policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Investor-state arbitration is a form of dispute settlement that allows foreign investors the opportunity to seek compensation for damages or discriminatory practices, most of which arise out of breaches of treaty obligations by the governments of host countries.

Since its origins, there have been competing views concerning the nature, scope and objectives of the process of integration and of the European Union.

This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors.

The Procedure of the UN Security Council is the definitive book of its kind and has been widely used by UN practitioners and scholars for nearly 40 years.

This book uncovers the changing way the EU is conducting its foreign policy in response to the Ukraine conflict and tensions with Russia.

Over the last 30 years, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a household term, reflecting a combination of factors that we have come to associate with that most catch-all of terms "e;globalization,"e; including the widespread popular concern with such social issues as the environment and international human rights.

This book explores what drives value politics and the way in which it redraws political conflict at EU level.

Analyzes the effects of globalization on the restructuring of politics in Western Europe over the past three decades.

The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance.

This volume attempts to examine the many possible causes of Brexit.

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

The concept of human security is a new approach to security that focuses on the individual human being and provides policy alternatives to the traditional state-centred view, which considers the state to be the only and ultimate referent of security.

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

This edited book examines European external interventions in human security, in order to illustrate the evolution and nature of the European Union as a global political actor.

The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations.

Why has Iceland not sought membership of the European Union?

The book examines diplomatic immunity and provides a historical analysis of the granting of diplomatic immunity to non-diplomats, based on the perspectives of several states.