International institutions

By all accounts, the case of Poland and its segue to market economy and democracy is a success story: 30 years of uninterrupted growth and development, infrastructure expansion, and modernization of the economy and society.

What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)?

An examination of the delegation of authority from state governments to international organizations.

This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.

This book aims to re-think the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political, and does so by exploring the potentiality of Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework.

This volume offers a coherent analysis of the European Union's security strategies within a comparative framework.

Immigration is currently one of the most vivid challenges the European Union faces.

This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations.

This book offers an explanation and evaluation of preventative diplomacy in an age of increasing precariousness.

One of the genuinely remarkable but relatively unnoticed developments of the last half-century is the blossoming of an international humanitarian order - a complex of norms, informal institutions, laws, and discourses that legitimate and compel various kinds of interventions by state and nonstate actors with the explicit goal of preserving and protecting human life.

With organized crime estimated to generate billions of dollars every year through illegal activities such as money laundering, smuggling of people and goods, extortion, robbery, fraud and insider trading, authorities are increasingly working together to combat this increasing threat to international security and stability.

United Nations Politics takes a unique approach that focuses on the politics that is, the persistent and mostly singular emphasis that all member states place on the pursuit of national political, economic, cultural and ideological interests of UN affairs.

In this book, John P.

Wiedemann reveals how the rise of financial markets as private alternatives to welfare states transforms social rights and responsibilities.

The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics provides a comprehensive analysis of the origins and development of one of the most striking supranational judicial institutions.

Private Law in the External Relations of the EU is an innovative study of the interactions between EU external relations law and private law, two unrelated fields of law, inverted if private law is understood as regulatory private law - the space where regulatory law intersects with private economic activity.

This book compares the ways in which trade unions in five EU member states have responded to increased migration.

This 2004 book explores the challenge of rehabilitating countries after civil wars.

This book examines the involvement of Portugal in the European integration process since the country signed the Accession Treaty in 1985.

Marie-Claude Smouts looks at the issue of rain forest depletion and global environmental policies.

An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.

An in-depth, impartial and informed description of the Lisbon Treaty''s legal features, in their historical and political context.

The European Parliament in the Contested Union provides a systematic assessment of the real influence of the European Parliament (EP) in policy-making.

This handbook is a one-stop, comprehensive guide to global initiatives for climate action.

After the financial crisis, what important lessons can we learn from fiscal policy?

International Relations (IR), as a discipline, is a western dominated enterprise.

Crisis after crisis has beset the European Union in recent years - Greek sovereign debt, Russian annexation of Crimea, unprecedented levels of migration, and the turmoil created by Brexit.

Offers a new understanding of traditional rules on jurisdiction and admissibility of cases before international courts and tribunals.

This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights.

The book explores cutting-edge interdisciplinary research strategies for the study of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The Round Table journal (now subtitled The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs) first appeared in 1910.

The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.

Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers ''demoicracy'' as the cure.

The purpose of the jus ad bellum is to draw a line in the sand: thus far, but no further.

This book examines China's participation in the United Nations (UN).

Cultural governance is currently regarded as a transversal element of public policy in Europe.

A review of the first ten years of the world''s largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative.

The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly.

The first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, analysing the interaction between different legal systems and sources.

Russian public diplomacy attracts growing attention in the current global climate of tension and competition.

Why are constitutionalist ideals so prominent in science fiction?

In this book, a former US Department of State senior arms control official critically analyses two pivotal nuclear arms control treaties: the established Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the rising Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

Against the backdrop of disintegrative tendencies in the EU, where Brexit perhaps most profoundly captures the spirit of current developments in the EU, this book offers a detailed understanding of the key issues, challenges, and opportunities that educators across Europe and beyond encounter on a daily basis when teaching EU-related course content at higher education institutions.

This collection of essays has been assembled to mark the centenary of The Round Table.

Die Beitrage dieses Bandes gehen aus der internationalen Konferenz "e;Ideas for the Future of Europe"e; hervor und fokussieren Ideen und Herausforderungen im Kontext bestehender Krisen in Europa und speziell in der Europaischen Union.

Analyzing the use of civilization in Russian-language political and media discourses, intellectual and academic production, and artistic practices, this book discusses the rise of civilizational rhetoric in Russia and global politics.

This book analyses the nearly 30 years of India-ASEAN relations from a contemporary perspective, identifies the reasons for India's vibrant and significant relation with ASEAN and examines the cultural, economic, political and strategic linkages between India and ASEAN.

This book offers a conceptualisation of unintended consequences and addresses a set of common research questions, highlighting the nature (what), the causes (why), and the modes of management (how) of unintended consequences of the European Union's (EU) external action.

Civil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence.