International institutions

This book offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-national approach to defining key elements required to define power within the maritime domain.

This book proposes that the European Union should craft a grand strategy to navigate the new world order based on a four-pronged approach.

This book provides a holistic view on the topics of peace and conflict, peace education, international relations and regional studies during the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage.

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms.

The new edition of this accessible introduction to the important role of the United Nations Secretary-General continues to offer a keen insight into the United Nations - the Secretariat and its head, the Secretary-General, summing up the history, structure, strengths and weaknesses, and continuing operations of an ever-present global institution.

This book examines the processes through which the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly acquire legal significance through state practice.

Decision-making in the European Union before and after the Lisbon Treaty aims to assess what the changes the Treaty of Lisbon envisaged and whether these ambitions have materialised since the Treaty entered into force.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the establishment and decision-making processes concerning the institutional design of the East African Community (EAC) throughout the 1990s and discusses to what extent these were impacted and inspired by other regional organizations from Africa and Europe.

This book proposes that work on the Women, Peace and Security agenda undertaken by civil society actors can be interpreted as a form of care labour that nourishes and sustains the agenda - without which the agenda could not, in fact, succeed.

This book offers a new perspective on peace missions in intra-state wars, based on comparative field research.

This book analyzes the influence of the Cuban Revolutionary Government on the evolution of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO).

- What role do humanitarian organizations play in crises such as those in Ukraine and the Middle East?

Recent years have seen the rise of EU State aid law as a crucial component of the European economic constitution.

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage?

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies.

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed.

Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) practice periodic surveillance of members to ensure that countries are adopting appropriate economic policies.

This book is based on Stephen Hill's direct experience working in the United Nations for many years as consultant and over a decade as full time Member of Staff-based in Indonesia and part-time in Paris, serving as United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific as well as Principal Director and Ambassador of the United Nations Agency UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) across South East Asia.

Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind.

This book pursues a dual objective: on the one hand, it focuses on the actual and potential roles of civil society in developing new forms of political, economic, and socio-cultural cooperation between the European Union and its neighbours.

Multicultural Citizenship: Legacy and Critique allows the philosopher an opportunity to consider the evolution and transformation of Will Kymlicka's theories from Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights.

The WTO Analytical Index covers developments in WTO law and practice up to December 2004.

This Handbook compiles leading international research on the regulation of the sharing economy from a range of academic disciplines.

As EU non-majoritarian bodies such as the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Central Bank grow in political influence, many have identified the pressing need to keep these bodies accountable to the repositories of the EU's democratic legitimacy.

This book investigates the hegemony of the USA by examining the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations' responses to major global crises.

This book is an authoritative account of the nuclear weapons inspections regime in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.

A long neglected concept in the field of international relations and political theory, hospitality provides a new framework for analysing many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states to asylum and refugee crises.

The Euro-Zone represents the single most important step in European Integration since 1957 and one of the boldest economic, monetary, and political projects in modern history.

This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade.

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid.

In 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) became part of the United Nations.

Compact, evidence-based guidance by a leading expert on how to undertake culturally sensitive psychotherapy and cross cultural engagement in any profession.

Covering a century of Middle Eastern international relations, this book develops an original approach to understanding regional conflict and cooperation.

This book analyses the role of institutionalised summits in international governance, adding a fresh perspective to the controversial debate over the value of institutionalised summits for international governance.

This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading scholars.

The European Union (EU) Constitution was one of the most important developments in the history of the EU, aiming to make the EU more transparent, relevant and accountable to the citizens of its member states.

This book is aimed at both professionals and students who desire to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflict intervention and resolution effectively.

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

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime.

Shortly after the overwhelming victory of Hamas in the 2006 parliamentary and municipal elections, civil war broke out in the Gaza Strip between members of the two factions, Hamas and Fatah.

LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness.

This book posits the possibility of a reasons-based account of the European integration process.

This book analyses differentiation in European integration from a Nordic perspective.

Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities.

Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics compares the historical relationship of China with its neighbours to the developing trajectory of the Belt and Road Initiative, and asks what this tells us about the kind of hegemon China is likely to become.

This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda.

Different survey-based and case study research has shown that, since the 1980s, minority nationalist parties have become increasingly supportive of European integration.

The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts.