International institutions

In Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts, Mukarrum Ahmed discusses the impact of Brexit upon jurisdiction, foreign judgments, and the applicable law in civil and commercial matters.

This book asks how the European Union can tackle the constitutional conundrum caused by the Euro crisis.

Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples.

The 1988 Nobel Peace Prize has thrown into sharp relief the significant role United Nations' peacekeepers have played on the international stage since the first operation 40 years ago.

It was an incredible destiny for a man who repeatedly announced that he was "e;without ambition.

This book adopts a sociolegal and interdisciplinary approach to examine how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been understood within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and ?

This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of traffickers themselves.

This book analyzes the Group of Twenty (G20) since the 2008 financial crisis.

This book contributes to the understanding of the counter-terrorism (CT) policy of the European Union (EU) by offering a set of analyses focusing on its external dimension.

This volume sets out to disentangle the debate about the Millennium Development goals in theory and practice.

European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe.

The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood.

The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy.

This book offers an innovative theoretical and empirical analysis of integration in EU foreign and interior policies across the three pillars, from the Maastricht Treaty to the Treaty of Nice.

This book traces the positions of national partisan actors towards the development of the European polity in an in-depth comparative analysis covering all member states of the European Union over a period of 60 years.

A new era of great power competition places a strategic premium on the efficiency with which states can pursue their aims.

This edited collection assesses the level of financial integration in the European Union (EU) and the differences across the countries and segments of the EU financial system.

This book offers a systematic critique of recent interventionist just war theories, which have made the recourse to force easier to justify.

This book presents the first in-depth assessment of France's policies towards NATO between 1981 and 1997.

Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges?

This volume offers new perspectives on the evolution of the trade-development nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the international context.

This book reflects on the questions raised by the European Election Study 2004 whose analytical focus was on the legitimacy of EU politics after Eastern enlargement.

In Pursuit of Prosperity provides a much needed exploration of the evolution of environmental sustainability in U.

Emergency Powers of International Organizations explores emergency politics of international organizations (IOs).

This book examines the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the context of the global economy in the twenty-first century, arguing that many problems within the institution lie in the disparity between its design and the nature of its tasks.

Over the past five decades, the European Union (EU) has developed into the most legally and politically authoritative regional organization in the world, wielding significant influence across a wide range of issue areas.

The United Nations and Human Security highlights and analyzes the changing peace and security challenges faced by the United Nations in an evolving international environment that is no longer solely characterized by states and inter-state security.

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.

This text is the best introduction to the history, institutions, actors, processes and challenges of European Foreign Policy.

This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations: Latin America and Europe.

This book traces the creation of international anti-corruption norms by states and other actors through four markedly different institutions: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and the Financial Action Task Force.

Sharing Security is a unique and comprehensive study of a key yet often neglected feature of modern international society.

The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank.

Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the different global institutions involved.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars.

Presents a new theory of the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political orders, exploring the impact of late-modernity upon the survival of democratic and authoritarian regimes.

This book explains cooperative and confrontational regional orders in the post-Cold War era.

This book discusses and analyses the dimensions of Turkey's strategic rapprochement with the Eurasian states and institutions since the deterioration of Ankara's relations with its traditional NATO allies.

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

Heart of the Nation traces America's volunteer tradition-the golden thread of American democracy-and how Presidents from Washington to Obama have called on citizens to serve neighbor and nation.

This book examines in depth the impact of the EU on aspects of the quality of democracy in eight selected post-communist countries.

Despite recent attempts by scholars to examine the absolute prohibition of threats of force under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, threats remain a largely un-chartered area in international law when compared with actual uses of force.

This edited volume offers different theories useful for understanding and explaining European Union cooperation on internal security matters.

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.

The new edition of this best-selling text provides the most up-to-date single volume history of the European Union from its origins through to the present day.

This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons.