International institutions

Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law.

This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring.

The crisis that nearly brought the world's financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widespread deception, corruption and lack of accountability.

This collection of essays arises from two symposia held by the University of Cambridge's Centre for Public Law and Centre for European Legal Studies in the winter and spring of 1997.

This book examines how states justify the domestic use of military force to foreign audiences.

This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards regimes, examining in detail to what degree, and under what circumstances, do these transnational regimes truly influence industrial environmental practices in developing countries?

This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings.

How are refugee crises solved?

This book examines Polish migration to Ireland in the context of 'new mobilities in Europe'.

This book provides an original, rigorous and theoretically-grounded investigation into varying EU efforts to advance intercultural dialogue (ICD) in the framework of its foreign policy towards the Mediterranean during the period 1990-2014.

In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians.

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

This book is the first monograph to systematically explore the relationship between citizenship and collective identity in the European Union, integrating two fields of research - citizenship and collective identity.

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

When states' survival is at stake, do states behave according to norms, do states refrain from using certain weapons based on norms against their use?

This completely revised and updated textbook explores the moral, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of the movement of people across international borders.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO’s middle powers have been pressured into shouldering an increasing share of the costs of the transatlantic alliance.

Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy, and that areas such as trade, development, environment and energy are inextricable elements of it.

An analysis of the EU''s role in fighting crime within the area of freedom, security and justice.

It is widely accepted that the future development of environmental law depends not on further legislation, but on more effective enforcement.

This book considers whether the United States and the People's Republic of China have irreconcilable visions of world order.

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgo presents a new way of looking at the art of European unification.

As the demand and necessity for greater international and transnational cooperation increase, the bureaucratic bodies of international organizations are receiving ever more scholarly attention.

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.

The newly revised and updated edition of International Organization is an introduction to the study of international organizations in the field of International Relations intended for students in the discipline.

This book analyzes policy and programming challenges for gender mainstreaming in counter-terrorism, with examples from comparative case studies of countering violent extremism programming.

Coalitions of consumer groups, NGOs, and trade unions have traditionally been considered politically weak compared to well-organized and resourceful financial sector groups which dominate or "e;capture"e; financial regulatory decisions.

When the athletes enter the stadium and the Olympic flame is lit, the whole world watches.

Much of the literature on the emerging role of the EU as a non-proliferation actor has only a minimal engagement with theory.

This Element shows how global policy making has driven many global and regional transformations over the past quarter-century.

The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world's foreign aid, but also a unique case, combining the characteristics of a bilateral and a multilateral donor.

Over the past decades, governments have increasingly been confronted with problems that transcend their boundaries.

Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective that transcends the traditional divide between the West and the East, and the Global South and Global North.

Contemporary international affairs are largely shaped by widely differing thematic issues and actors, such as nation states, international institutions, NGOs and multinational companies.

The foundation of the European Union was one of the most important historical events in the second half of the 20th century.

Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration.

A definitive reassessment of the constitutional, economic, institutional and judicial dimensions of the EU internal market, including Brexit.

The law of the external relations of the European Union is a subject of great importance.

This book examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.

Written by leading experts in the field, this volume identifies European collective preferences and analyzes to what extent these preferences inform and shape EU foreign policy and are shared by other actors in the international system.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

Parliamentary diplomacy has provided a crucial, promising outlet in Taiwan's challenging pursuit of its own interests in the international arena.

The book aims to analyze the development of the right to water from the perspective of human rights law.

This book discusses the future of the European Union following the failure of the Constitutional and reform treaties, examining the transformations, dynamics and major issues facing present-day Europe.

This book examines recent attempts at reform within the United Nations in the wake of the institutional crisis provoked by the invasion of Iraq.

Europeanization of Judicial Review argues that the higher complexity of the political framework in which laws are made today leads to less well-designed laws and loop-holes, allowing politicians to leave decisions to the courts.

Mark Findlay's treatment of regulatory sociability charts the anticipated and even inevitable transition to mutual interest which is the essence of taking communities from shared risk to shared fate.

In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country.