International institutions

The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash.

This book examines the relationship between women, gender and the international security agenda, exploring the meaning of security in terms of discourse and practice, as well as the larger goals and strategies of the global women's movement.

The British referendum on the membership of the European Union on 23 June 2016 was a cataclysmic event in British and European politics.

This is a book that tackles the most important issue of our age in a highly informative, accessible and engaging way.

This book provides a critical analysis of the political and conflict impacts of "e;good governance"e; public finance reforms, showing how unintended distributional outcomes can undermine broader state building goals.

The Arctic has, for some forty years, been among the most innovative policy environments in the world.

This books asks, can the UN violate human rights, and if so, how can it be held accountable?

Regional organizations are an inescapable feature of global politics.

Assesses the function, successes of and challenges for the EU''s Common Security and Defence Policy.

This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations.

This book examines the relatively recent and under-explored phenomenon of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from the large emerging market countries, focusing on the four BRIC states (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and on the services sector meaning primarily telecommunications, finance, and transport.

It has long been realized that democratic governance requires a two-way flow of influence.

This volume focuses on multilateralism in the 21st century and examines how, and how effectively, the EU delivers on its commitment to effective multilateralism.

Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates?

The regulation of sovereign financing is a highly topical and significant issue, in the light of continuing global financial turmoil.

This volume approaches the UN as a laboratory of religio-political value politics.

The contributors collected here discuss the patterns of continuity and change, success and failure observed in seven policy areas - environment, social regulation, regional policy, the single market, agriculture, EMU and foreign policy - in order to investigate how policy formulated and implemented in Greece has changed as a result of EU membership; why Greek authorities have managed to implement EU policy more successfully in some policy areas than in others and whether Greek public opinion vis-a-vis the EU changed over time.

Much research has highlighted that sub-state entities (SSEs) - such as the German Lander, the Spanish autonomous communities, or the French regions - mobilise at the European level.

This exciting new textbook provides an accessible and lively introduction to international relations for students encountering the subject for the first time.

Security Council resolutions have undergone an important evolution over the last two decades.

This book provides an overview of what has happened to NATO from the closing stages of the Cold War to the new era of international terrorism.

Presenting the first analytical overview of the legal foundations of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), this book provides a detailed examination of the law and practice of the EU's security policy.

This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century.

This book examines lobbying in EU foreign policy-making and the activities of non-state actors (NSAs), focusing on EU foreign policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Presents a critical outline and comparison of selected EU Member State constitutional identities in the context of EU multilevel constitutionalism.

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Development, Social Work, and the Sustainable Development Goals answers the question: What is the contribution of social development and social work to the Sustainable Development Goals?

Examines the ways in which the EU is reforming the field of international investment law.

This book presents an in-depth empirical study of the effects of ''voluntaristic'' and (partly) ''soft'' EU policies in all 15 member states.

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This book considers China's recent engagement in the Middle East, to what extent its approach has fundamentally changed, and how this role change has been received by regional and other actors.

The euro crisis, several sovereign debt crises, the Great Recession, the refugee crisis, and Brexit have all challenged Europeans' willingness to show solidarity with other European citizens and member states of the European Union.

A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book reappraises and reassesses conventional explanations of European integration.

This new study revisits the work of the late Ernst Haas, assessing his relevance for contemporary European integration and its disparities.

This book examines the process of Poland's accession negotiations to the European Union between 1998-2003.

Failed attempts at producing ambitious global climate commitments and instruments have made it increasingly important for nation states to deliver climate policies.

This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).

A selection of ten lectures on the future of conventional deterrence is drawn together by a new essay on the subject.

This book considers national parliaments' and the European Parliament's role in European Union (EU) economic governance.

Explains how environmentalism became a fundamental norm in international relations and explores the impact of the greening of international society.

Written from a global perspective, The Institutions of Human Rights examines international human rights institutions and procedures, as well as weighty issues such as the protection of refugee and labor laws.

Does the EU matter in international security?

Based on an analytical evaluation of both the weaknesses and strengths of the Italian political system, Italy in the European Union is the first book to offer a detailed and comprehensive description of Italy's contribution to European Union policy-making.

The most current, contextual and authoritative EU law text, including Brexit, the euro, and the migration crisis.

This volume assembles the major papers discussed at an international workshop on poverty monitoring to evaluate poverty indicators and poverty monitoring systems.

How have EU-level actors responded to the increase in salience and contestation across the member states?

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

A reinterpretation of world politics drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions to argue for a focus on relations amongst actors, rather than on the actors individually.

This book investigates the international responsibility of the EU in relation to the activities of the Frontex Border Agency.

International Relations and International Law have developed in parallel but distinctly throughout the 20th Century.