International institutions

Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern.

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact.

This book examines the timely topic of controlling the borders of the European Schengen Area.

In the Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their powerful neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU negotiate their future policies and spheres of influence.

Providing a comprehensive overview of two centuries of international civil servants and international secretariats, this book reveals how international secretariats have emerged and evolved, focusing on both structures (international public administrations) and the practitioners (international civil servants).

Hugh Collins examines whether the harmonisation of private law in the European Union would be a desirable development.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is broadening its agenda and carving out a role as a key player in global economic policy-making, and this volume provides a succinct and comprehensive guide to this important organization.

The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans.

The UN Military Staff Committee is a misunderstood organ, and never really worked as it was initially envisaged.

This book is a codification of the principles and rules relating to the prosecution of investment claims.

As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting "e;masculine"e; character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it.

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

How do arbitrators decide in the face of the uncertainty of the law between alternatives which may be equally justified?

Europe's borders have always been historically ambiguous and dynamic, whereby borders shift and change character and new borders replace older ones.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is one of the central institutions of the EU and has played a decisive role in European integration.

The United States contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and it is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery.

Small states are dependent on the economic, political, and societal shelter provided by larger states and international organizations to survive and prosper.

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

This book focuses on border deaths at sea.

This book re-examines the law governing the obligations of the Member States in the European Union from the perspective of the interests formulated and pursued by national governments in the EU.

This book examines how European issues have played out in Serbian and Croatian party politics since 2000, in the context of significant challenges brought by European integration of the Western Balkans.

The legal foundations of global governance are shifting.

This book sheds new light on how lobbying works in the European Union.

This book examines China and Australia's economic and security relations against the background of China's increasing economic and political role.

The European Union is composed of its fifteen member governments, yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive, judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the European Parliament.

Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically focused outfit into a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activities related to human mobility.

Europe is in crisis.

Since the Libya War in 2011 it has been widely suggested that NATO's role in US security policy has diminished, because Washington gives Europe less and Asia more strategic priority (a tendency that is reinforced by budget restraints), and because the US is no longer interested in always leading NATO activities that mainly concern European conditions.

Using nine case studies and an overview of recent changes at the institutional level, the purpose of this book is to examine the issues and experiences associated with the increased level of activity between the United Nations and regional organizations in their efforts to address conflict in Africa.

This book examines cooperation on shared environmental concerns across national boundaries in the Southern Cone region of South America, specifically Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

This book examines new member states' problems with the absorption of EU funds.

This book explores the role and status of local and regional authorities (also referred to as 'subnational authorities' or 'SNAs') in European Union law, and reveals the existence of two parallel yet opposed constitutional imaginations of the supranational legal order.

This completely revised and rewritten handbook gives an overview of international organization (IO) as a dynamic field of research that adds to our understanding of global and regional relations and related domestic politics.

This book examines the importance of global nuclear order, emphasising the importance of perspective in our understanding of it, and its significance in international politics.

"e;Although technological innovation is undoubtedly crucial for addressing climate change, low-carbon innovation policies and politics have hardly been studied.

A timely investigation into the conditions that make international agreements-and the institutions that enforce them-vulnerable.

This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa.

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

Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled.

Tangled Governance addresses the institutions that were deployed to fight the euro crisis, reestablish financial stability in Europe, and prevent contagion to the rest of the world.

Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) presents a negotiation framework based on the principles of network/collaborative governance in implementing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant.

Today, international investment law consists of a network of multifaceted, multilayered international treaties that, in one way or another, involve virtually every country of the world.

Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a new and stimulating history of International Relations as an academic discipline.

This book makes the case for why cooperation is the key to security within and between states, and for dealing with complex threats and challenges to international peace and security.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, nature, and function of Serbian paramilitary units during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia.