International institutions

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that currently fails it weakest citizens.

This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF's contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan.

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries.

This book examines the vision and strategy of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), which has become one of the key objectives of the European Union (EU).

This volume of the "e;Advances in Ecopolitics"e; examines the impact of the economic crisis on peripheral European states such as Ireland and Greece.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders.

This study is dedicated to the postcolonial preservation of cultural heritage and restitution policies within the framework of the Charter for African Cultural Renaissance as a Pan-African instrument of international law.

Since 2008, the European Union has been affected by one of the most severe crises in the history of Europe.

The security concerns of the United Nations today extend far beyond what the writers of the 1945 Charter could have imagined.

This volume provides a detailed discussion of the role of women in diplomacy and a global narrative of their current and historical role within it.

Anthony Forster argues that euroscepticism, in addition to being a political stance, displays the seeds of becoming a new faith.

Originally published in 1962 this book advanced the debate about the Common Market and its implications for Britain by a significant step.

Following the financial and public debt crisis, the EU's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been under intense political scrutiny.

This book is the first of a work in two parts addressing the relations between the transnational society and the state.

For years the European Union has been looked on as a potential model for cosmopolitan governance, and enjoyed considerable influence on the global stage.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2016.

This book assesses the use and limitations of the principal-agent model in a context of increasingly complex political systems such as the European Union.

This volume analyzes the context, dynamics and key players shaping Nepal''s ongoing peace process.

This book outlines the content of the main treaties that form the 'constitutional' basis of the European Union and analyses changes in these over time.

The unprecedented arrival of more than a million refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants - plus the political, public, and policy reactions to it - is redefining Europe.

This volume documents the British Government's response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.

This book explains why some international institutions succeed and others fail – and what we can do to improve them.

This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions.

The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic partnership, multilateralism/multipolarization, and global governance, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations.

The doctrine of supranationalism has been most evident in Europe, but has become increasingly a global tour de force .

Large-scale migration constitutes an unavoidable social reality within the European Union.

A United Nations specialized agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) oversees and encourages the development of international civil aviation.

This study, based on archives only recently made available, examines Canada’s relations with the Soviet Union between the first and second world wars.

Defending Europe seeks to clarify the competing ambitions, the contrasting visions and the trans-Atlantic tensions related to the recent quest by Europe for autonomy in the sphere of security and defense.

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "e;entangling alliance"e; with ten European nations.

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.

This book offers a timely and concise academic and historical background to the concept and practice of neutrality, a relatively new phenomenon in foreign and security policy.

Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour.

Political elites in liberal democracies are showing heightened concern about threats to national security from the overseas political activities of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its supporters.

This textbook, the first comprehensive comparative study ever undertaken, surveys and compares the world's ten largest diplomatic services: those of Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head.

Africa's natural resource sectors are experiencing unprecedented levels of foreign investment and production.

Most EU-scholars conceive of the EU as a multilevel polity with strong powers to regulate economic policy externalities among the member states but little power to intervene in, let alone assume, core functions of sovereign government ('core state powers') such as foreign and defense policy, public finance, public administration, and the maintenance of law and order.

Populism and Heritage in Europe explores popular discourses about European and national heritage that are being used by specific political actors to advance their agendas and to prevent minority groups from being accepted into European society.

This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world -the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

NATOs 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliances mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities.

Part of the Oxford EU Financial Regulation Series, this work analyses the implications of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) for banks in Europe, and the second edition reflects the experience in practice of this regime both economically and legally.

Written by one of the premier scholars on the European Union and hailed as the best undergraduate text on the subject, this book has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

This new textbook provides an introduction to humanitarian protection, a field of study concerned with international responses to armed conflict, political violence, and humanitarian crisis.

As the central feature on the American political landscape, it is only natural that scholars and commentators focus on the presidency.

This book sketches an institutional political economy framework to discuss the interaction between development and foreign policy in the global South with reference to Turkey.

This volume analyses the impact of globalization on civil service systems across the Middle East and North Africa.

The British referendum on continuing membership of the European Union (EU) in June 2016 represented a turning point in the relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the EU.