International institutions

This book examines the role of transnational advocacy networks in enabling effective participation for individual citizens in the deliberative processes of global governance.

In this study, an international and multidisciplinary team take stock of the promise and shortfalls of 'Social Europe' today, examining the response to the Eurocrisis, the past decade of social policy in the image of the Lisbon Agenda, and the politics that derailed a more Delorsian Europe from ever emerging.

This new text introduces the history, evolution and contemporary state of one of the European Union's most important, expensive and controversial policies.

European states and international organizations have established multiple policies and mechanisms to deal with various risks, crises and disasters.

This book examines the extent to which international organizations have shaped reforms in education and training in federalist countries with regards to policy convergence.

This book tells the inside story of Europe's first presidential campaign, the candidates, how they were chosen, the campaign trail, the TV debates and the tense negotiations which followed.

This analysis seeks to analyse the main trends in Gulf security in light of the changes in the regional and international arena, while examining the relationship between external and internal threats, which are intertwined in the Gulf security agenda.

In a dispute, governments weigh up their options when selecting between various dispute settlement mechanisms.

The author tests the hypothesis that hubris and the Bathsheba syndrome tend to affect all top leaders, by zooming in on the best known and very highest executives of our own day and age, and examines the psychological forces tugging at the top level of political leadership.

This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture.

Based on cutting-edge research, this edited volume examines how citizens and political elites perceive the legitimacy of regional integration in Europe and the Americas.

Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills.

What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today?

This study examines the history and politics of Turkey-EU relations since 1959, exploring the complex interaction of geostrategic and normative concerns which have resulted in the current lack of accession progress and Turkey's slide to authoritarianism.

In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic.

This book challenges the assumption that policy makers' work with advisory committees is emblematic of technocratic governance.

Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation.

This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with foreign audiences to explain US foreign policy and American culture and society.

Sharp in focus and succinct in analysis, this Pivot examines the latest developments and scholarly debates surrounding the sources of the European Union's crisis of legitimacy and possible solutions.

Presenting a critical overview of what 'emerging multipolarity' means for the world's foremost global trading bloc and economic power, the European Union, this book offers new insights into how the rise of the emerging economies has impacted the EU and its role within the World Trade Organization.

This book explores how different governments have leveraged their capacity to advance a revival of nuclear power.

Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the Americas to US leadership and the neo-liberal reforms that had been promoted by Washington since the 1980s.

How can transitional justice institutions provide due diligence to the lived experiences of women during war and violent political upheaval?

This study argues that the practices of European integration reproduce, rather than transcend, the practices of modern statecraft.

Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro?

This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power.

The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has come a long way since its inception as the European Security and Defence Identity under NATO.

The European Union affects the lives of Europeans in many and varied ways, yet, in spite of its reach, it often appears a constrained political system struggling for internal consensus, reliant on the agreement of national governments, and hampered by the scepticism of electorates.

This study examines the African Union's peacekeeping role in managing African conflicts.

This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, arguing that the agreement's critics and proponents inscribe themselves into different Russian narratives about Russia's rightful place in the world.

This book accounts for whether and how the path of the European Union (EU) has developed towards potential disintegration.

The book examines selected faith-based organisations (FBOs) and their attempts to seek to influence debate and decision-making at the United Nations (UN).

This volume explores the domestic and transnational considerations associated with Indonesia's ascent, referring to its rise in terms of hard and soft power and its likely trajectory in the future.

By arguing and detailing the elements of a soft and hard infrastructure approach to the process of global stakeholder relationships governance, this study integrates advanced, flexible and feasible tools to develop an organization's listening culture; integrated reporting as an ongoing process of continued multi-stakeholder reporting.

This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance.

This broad-ranging text provides an analysis and assessment of the European Union's energy policy.

This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood.

This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies.

This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic organisation.

This edited volume addresses the challenges and opportunities facing NATO post-2014, applying an original approach to strategy that will produce fresh insights into this hot topic within the international security community.

This book is about the status of political equality under global political conditions.

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era.

This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip.

The book summarises the critique of these approaches, suggests a comprehensive alternative framework, and shows how the alternative works in reality through a case study of the largest of the new democracies, Indonesia.

The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union.

This book argues that the G20 is neither a global executive board for a new world order, nor is it just a crisis unit for failing economies.

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.

Surmounting the Global Crisis critiques the impact of NATO enlargement and the US 'pivot to Asia' on both the Russia and China and examines how these dual US-backed policies may influence key countries in the Euro-Atlantic, wider Middle East, and Indo-Pacific regions in general.

This major new text provides a uniquely broad ranging introduction to, and assessment of the contribution of, the whole range of theoretical approaches that have been applied to the analysis of European integration.

EU foreign policy has long been considered the exclusive domain of member states.