International institutions

This book presents a systematic, in-depth, and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in the process of international state-building and is one of the first comprehensive books to do so at an international level.

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

Drawing on mainstream and critical theoretical approaches, International Organizations offers a comprehensive examination of international organizations' political and structural role in world politics.

This book examines accountability in the EU from different perspectives and considers whether EU citizens have real opportunities for holding decision-makers accountable.

The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration.

Europe's sovereign debt crisis and the accompanying national bank crises in the European Union brought bank regulation and supervision to the top of the EU policy agenda.

This book seeks to understand the obligations of the international community to promote and protect state and human security in situations of international humanitarian crises.

Discrimination in International Investment Arbitration provides an original and comprehensive treatment of the non-discrimination standards at the heart of many investment treaty cases.

Die nationalen und bündnisinternen Entscheidungsprozesse auf dem Weg zum Atlantischen Bündnis vor dem Hintergrund beunruhigend empfundener Bedrohungsvorstellungen geben in multinationaler Perspektive auf teils neu erschlossener Quellengrundlage umfassend Einblick in die höchst unterschiedlichen Interessen und Motive, aus denen sich die internationalen und nationalen Akteure auf eine solidarische Allianz einließen.

This book analyses the way in which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) defines the West after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive 'Other', the Soviet Union.

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body''s 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

This book considers the complex and contradictory role of the United Nations when it comes to human rights around the world.

The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today's college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine.

The oil industry is the world's largest commercial enterprise.

Contributing to our understanding of the impact of the 2015 migrant "e;crisis"e; on the future of EU integration, this book views the "e;crisis"e; as an accelerant to existing problems, namely Brexit, the growing popularity of anti-immigrant far right parties and the rise of xenophobic and antiliberal governments from the Baltics to the Balkans.

The post-Cold War era saw an unexpected increase in intra-state violence against ethnic and religious groups, brutal civil wars and asymmetric conflicts.

Poverty narratives have become an unprecedented source of empowerment.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2016.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most extensive and widely ratified international human rights treaty.

Currently, some 2,500 civilian experts work across Europe, Africa, and Asia in ten ongoing civilian missions launched under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).

The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations.

This book investigates why the convergence of Japan's bank-centered financial system to an American-style capital market-based model has lost steam since the mid-2000s, despite financial deregulation during the 1980s and 1990s.

German philosopher Jurgen Habermas has written extensively on the European Union.

The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state encompassing it.

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition.

This book contributes to an increasingly important branch of critical security studies that combines insights from critical geopolitics and postcolonial critique by making an argument about the geographies of violence and their differential impact in contemporary security practices, including but not limited to military intervention.

This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs.

This book examines the interplay between sanctions and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

This Book attempts to deduce regulatory standards that can close the gaps between the Promises made and the Outcomes secured by the United Nations in relation to its use of force.

Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and circumscribe political processes of recognising the rights of indigenous peoples.

The book analyses the emerging centre-periphery divisions within the European Union which result from the unprecedented conditions created by the 2008-09 global financial crisis and the subsequent Eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

A new edition of a dictionary of international organisations, last published in 1992, which provides an unbiased review of over 200 organisations currently in existence, with membership charts for the UN, specialised agencies and regional institutions, and a table of foundation dates.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2015.

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

This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security.

This book systematically exploreshow different theoretical concepts of myth can be utilised to interpretivelyexplore contemporary international politics.

In einer zunehmend vernetzten Welt sind Remote-Freelancer zu einem unverzichtbaren Bestandteil moderner Unternehmen geworden.

The most comprehensive account on the question of reparation before a human rights court.

The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe.

For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses through which to examine them.

In this volume, scholars from different disciplines join together to examine the overlapping domains of conflict and collaboration studies.

Translated by Ciaran Cronin.

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.

In recent decades, the external action of the European Union (EU) has been undergoing considerable change.