International institutions

The geopolitics of oil and gas have made a spectacular return to the international political agenda.

The Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992 and ratified in the following year, is widely seen as a landmark in the evolution of the European Union.

The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time.

Principles and Practice in EU Sports Law provides an overview of EU sports law.

This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin's rule.

This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.

Sport presents one of the most advanced cases of 'globalisation,' arguably because there are fewer cultural and political obstacles to the development of trade and international power in sport than there are in other fields.

International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy is an exploratory text looking at the idea of intergovernmental organizations as autonomous international actors.

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, the world has faced its biggest shared test since the Second World War in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to strategic and operational planning undergo fundamental paradigmatic shifts.

This book reflects on selected issues of European law in dialogue with leading legal scholar Bruno De Witte, whose work has enlightened generations of students, scholars and practitioners of European law.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

Agriculture has a small, and declining, importance in employment and income generation within the EU, but a political importance well beyond its economic impact.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, ordoliberalism emerged from relative obscurity to become one of the crucial terms of analysis across a wide range of academic literatures and public discussion.

A comprehensive analysis of how European development policy was shaped, this book explores the role of former colonial officials in shaping the policy agenda and explores this example of 'recycled empire.

This book offers a general framework for a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the institutional rules of intergovernmental organizations that include parliamentary elements, and analyzes the role of various types of international parliamentary assemblies in the system of global governance, as well as insights into the process known as "e;parliamentarization of international organizations.

This edited volume explores and evaluates the roles of corruption in post-conflict peacebuilding.

This book imagines how Europe might re-organise and re-group after the COVID-19 crisis by assessing its effectiveness when responding to it.

Offering a comprehensive account of the work of Hedley Bull, Ayson analyses the breadth of Bull's work as a Foreign Office official for Harold Wilson's government, the complexity of his views, including Bull's unpublished papers, and challenges some of the comfortable assertions about Bull's place in the English School of IR.

Examines a new form of power in contemporary global political economy, focusing on the hybrid authority of standards in the globalisation of services.

This book introduces readers to the development, principles, and philosophy of humanitarian diplomacy, before demonstrating how it works in practice, using a range of case studies from humanitarian work in the field.

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This book examines just what the European Union is, in the context of the ongoing structural transformation of the global system.

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

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied.

This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement.

The tension between the aim of creating sustainable multilateral region-building dynamics and the need to find more differentiated and flexible forms of cooperation has been ever-present in Euro-Mediterranean relations.

Neil Archer's original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity.

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.

Using a unique analytical framework, the UN Secretariat's Influence on the Evolution of Peacekeeping reveals deep insights in the UN's peacekeeping decision-making and shows that even international bureaucracies with limited autonomy can shape international politics.

This book investigates the history, development, and current state of anti-corruption agencies in Latin America.

As the European Union grows and matures, its movement toward a single market has been the primary focus of attention.

This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance.

This book examines when, how and why internationalisation affects national economic institutions.

This book tackles the question: when international security institutions face a legitimacy crisis, why are some replaced while others endure?

The world currently faces a number of challenges that no single country can solve.

This book explores how norms-based international organizations, namely the Council of Europe and the OSCE, are still able to win in world politics.

The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance and to provide a better critical understanding of the various practices that fall under its rubric.

What explains differences in the lobbying behaviour of interest groups?

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities.

Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and United Nations peacekeeping operations.

How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy?

The European Union (EU) is a continuously evolving entity.

This book investigates various dimensions of the economic conflicts between the US - and other democratic market-economy countries - and state-capitalist communist China in the past decade, examining how differences in institutions and ideology bring these about.

The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE).

This book analyses the importance of the G20 to India, its role so far, and how it can leverage its presidency year to be an influential author of new global rules.

Business History and International Business are cognate subjects.

This book critically assesses the human security challenges faced by states, focusing on how and to what extent the state is influenced by global structures and operations.

First Published in 1997.