International institutions

This last decade has been particularly turbulent for the EU.

Explores labour, environmental, and animal welfare standards for the sale of goods produced abroad from an EU law perspective.

Combining the insights of a seasoned practitioner with the academic rigor of a meticulous policy and risk analyst, del Castillo discusses the major obstacles to peacebuilding that need to be removed before war-torn countries can move towards peace, stability, and prosperity.

The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system.

Using detailed examples from Finland, Hungary, Canada and the UK, this book explores relationships between the racialization and discrimination experienced by heterogeneous European Roma populations, and the processes of everyday bordering embedded in state policies and media discourses.

This book explores how compliance with international environmental law has changed over time, offering a critical analysis of its current shifting patterns.

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

This book contends that civil society must mobilize its capacities to bring a new will to national and international politics and oblige governments to act.

This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

International investments are governed by three different legal frameworks: 1) national laws of both the host country and the investor's home country; 2) contracts, whether between the investor and the host country or among investors and their associates; and 3) international law, consisting of applicable treaties, customs, and general principles of law.

This book looks at the evolution of the role of Europe in US grand strategy, and unpacks how US administrations have instrumentalized this relationship in pursuit of extra-European objectives.

This work seeks to look beyond the seemingly endless deadlock in the WTO's Doha round of trade negotiations that began in November 2001 and were first scheduled to conclude by January 1, 2005.

This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization.

'At a time when peacekeepers are struggling to fulfil increasingly demanding mandates and UN peacekeeping is in danger of losing the distinct character that won it the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize, this important book argues for a clear theoretical redefinition within a conflict resolution framework and examines the practical implications for training.

This book examines the role of law in regulating and influencing the lived experiences of posted workers in Europe.

The current financial and sovereign debt crisis of the European Union and the United States can be regarded as the most recent of a wave of financial and sovereign debt crises that have affected different regions of the world over the past quarter century.

This critical review of Hammarskjöld''s legacy as Secretary-General explores the contemporary relevance of his international civil service, agency and leadership.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Lithuanian foreign policy by employing the theory of small states and the agent-perspective to assess how President Dalia Grybauskaite impacted Lithuanian foreign policy in 2009-2019 and which, in turn, could affect changes in international structures.

This book investigates to what extent and how the European Semester impacts on national employment policy in four EU member states of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region.

This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004.

This book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sows in four 'most different' African countries: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania.

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

World War I left in its wake an unparalleled amount of international debt.

This book provides a comparative-historical analysis of school politics in Norway and Germany, inspired by Rokkanian cleavage theory.

First published in 1999, this volume contributed to the debate on the European Union in furthering the study of environmental policy and, expressly, by introducing promising young scholars to the debate.

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.

Tracing the changing activities of international bureaucracies active in global climate and energy governance, this book provides an in-depth analysis of processes of institutional innovation and governance integration between the two fields.

An innovative volume of essays contrasting conceptual and contextual approaches to the modern law of treaties.

This volume examines mechanisms for regional peacemaking and conflict management in Europe and the Middle East.

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a unique agricultural policy worldwide.

This book investigates two critical political science domains: international negotiation processes and the establishment of good governance practices, using real-world examples.

The International Labour Organization's (ILO) efforts since the early 1990s to address the forced labour situation in Myanmar represent a rare example of success in influencing the behaviour of that regime, and this book gives a first-hand account of these efforts.

This book argues that the international community has a moral duty to intervene on behalf of a population affected by a natural hazard when their government is either unable or unwilling to provide basic, life-saving assistance.

This edited volume provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of UN peacekeeping and the use of force, to inform a better understanding of the complex and interconnected issues at stake for the UN community.

This book fills the normative gap arising from the absence of a multilateral mechanism for sovereign debt restructuring.

From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are not treated fairly by the law.

The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations).

This book examines the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) practitioners in coordinating, creating, and managing regional governance practices in the areas of public health, peace and security, and microfinancial integration.

This book constitutes an up-to-date methodology reference work for International Relations (IR) scholars and students.

In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves.

This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field.

One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States.

This book draws on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in Russia to show how the wider sociopolitical context - the political system, relationship between the state and academia as well as the contours of the public debate - shapes knowledge about international politics and influences scholars' engagement with the policy world.

This Handbook brings together many of the key scholars and leading practitioners in international arbitration, to present and examine cutting-edge knowledge in the field.

This book examines the logic behind the shifts and paradigm changes within the scholarship on peacebuilding.

The focus of this book is the implications of EU enlargement in May 2004 for EU-Russian relations.

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently.

This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term 'peacebuilding', and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding.