International institutions

This book examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU).

Article 226 EC is the central mechanism of enforcement in the EC Treaty, and has remained unchanged since the original Treaty of Rome.

Foreign Aid: Policy and Practice offers a complete overview of the basics of foreign aid.

This book explores the influence of private United States (US) philanthropic foundations in the governance of global problems.

An original analysis of the definition and scope of the right not to be held in slavery, servitude and forced labour.

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states.

Internationale Organisationen sind zentraler Bestandteil internationalen Regierens.

This book explores the positions of small EU members in approaching external energy security, using Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as case studies.

This pioneering text brings together for the first time the global institutions on the front line of the campaign against hunger and poverty.

This book explores the foundations of the current economic crisis.

This book questions the practices in the policy processes of international institutions.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse.

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

In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union.

The book summarises the critique of these approaches, suggests a comprehensive alternative framework, and shows how the alternative works in reality through a case study of the largest of the new democracies, Indonesia.

Development analysts tend to give short shrift to the seemingly minor bureaucratic hitches faced by practitioners-those who design, manage, implement, and evaluate aid projects.

How has the evolution and transformation of the Common Market affected the legal concept of State aid?

The book assesses the EU performance in the broader UN setting after the Lisbon Treaty.

Aid sector staff work in some of the world's most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps.

This book investigates the ways governments trade money for favors at the United Nations Security Council.

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model.

Argues for a different approach to theories of international relations, focussing on relationship between realism and constructivism.

NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s.

This textbook provides a historical survey of economic and political development theory and practice from 1945.

This book develops a timely analysis of the complex trends and transformations emerging in EU competition law in the current turbulent times.

The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia''s relations with the West.

Using hard power in the context of an expanding set of threats is complex, expensive and risky.

Constructing a Policy-Making State?

This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity.

Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development.

Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, international law has sought to configure itself as a universal system.

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment.

The European Union seems to have rescued its single currency, but it has not yet put an end to the crisis.

Leading scholars analyse key dilemmas in the application of sanctions and inducements on states that violate international non-proliferation commitments.

Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions was justified or effective.

In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures.

Memory and the future of Europe examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union.

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law.

This book analyzes new developments in human rights, intellectual property, disarmament, and migration from a perspective rooted in Vatican tradition.

Despite the non-territorialised strategic goals of the EU 2020 Strategy, the long-term aim of EU Cohesion Policy to promote harmonious development of the European territory - social, economic, and 'territorial cohesion' - remains a central goal of achieving a more cohesive EU territory.

This edited volume empirically examines key theoretical and practical issues relevant to the promotion of local ownership in contemporary international peacebuilding.

What impact do issues of culture, religion and identity have on Turkey's chances of joining the EU?

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Despite the large number of regional and global summits there is very little known about the functioning and impact of this particular type of diplomatic practice.

International organisations (IOs) often receive a bad press, seen as intrusive, domineering and unresponsive to the needs of the people and countries they are meant to serve.

Article 226 EC is the central mechanism of enforcement in the EC Treaty, and has remained unchanged since the original Treaty of Rome.

This volume offers a collective assessment of the development and impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership Initiative on its eastern neighbours - Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova in particular, with Russia's added perspective.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

Max Haller's impressive book presents an analysis of the process of European integration which keeps the relation between elites and citizens at the forefront.