International institutions

The global financial and economic crisis struck the European Union and its member states with particular force from 2009 onwards.

Through an interdisciplinary analytic lens that combines debates emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology, Valeria Bello reveals how transnational dynamics have increased extremism, prejudiced attitudes towards others and international xenophobia.

This book provides a detailed understanding of how different types of engagements impact upon the reform and EU integration of the Western Balkan region.

Die EU ist in ihrer jetzigen Form unfähig, ihre Krisen zu meistern.

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport.

Nation states have long and successfully claimed to be the proper and sovereign forum for determining a country's international economic policies.

A 2003 collection of lectures examining the evolution of international criminal justice from World War II to date.

This book focuses on the recent rise of new regional economic institutions such as the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which were established, in part, as a result of dissatisfaction of dynamic emerging markets with global economic institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT/WTO.

A discussion of the EC Regulation and Directive in all Member States with respect to cross-border mergers (28 countries).

This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world.

People's Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created by members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with ongoing or past atrocities.

This book asks whether the well-established privilege against self-incrimination applies to corporations, whether it should, and if so, to what extent.

Offers the first book-length comparative study of resilience, examining this increasingly influential topic as it is experienced across different countries and policy sectors.

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 is based on Stephen Hill's direct experience working in the United Nations for many years as consultant and over a decade as full time Member of Staff-based in Indonesia and part-time in Paris, serving as United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific as well as Principal Director and Ambassador of the United Nations Agency UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) across South East Asia.

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.

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment.

This book examines the way in which globalisation has affected our thinking about sovereignty, human rights, law and legitimacy.

This book highlights how temporary international civil servants play a crucial role in initiating processes of legal and institutional change in the United Nations system.

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "e;democratic deficit,"e; Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies.

This book takes a new look at the Commonwealth from the founding of the Secretariat in 1965 to the 14th Commonwealth Games in 1990.

In recent years, the term sectarianism has been widely used to explain contemporary affairs across the Middle East and North Africa.

Broadening the Debate on EU-Africa Relations is designed to expand the scope of our understanding of the multi-layered relationship between the European Union and African political actors in order to shape both the academic and policy level discourse.

Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously fragile.

This book explores the images and perceptions of the European Union (EU) in the eyes of one of the EU's three strategic partners in Asia in the context of its own distinct policies and identity.

World football is in crisis.

This book examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU).

Using the example of Werner Faymann, Dalia Grybauskaite, Angela Merkel, Viktor Orban and Mark Rutte, the book examines the impact that the European Council's environment has on leadership styles and the impact of leaders on the institution's decision-making during the financial and debt crisis, the Ukraine crisis, and the migration crisis (2010-2016).

A highly readable look at the role of the US and NATO in Libya''s war of liberation, and its lessons for future military interventions.

This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (Hungary-Austria, Bulgaria-Germany, Poland-UK and Estonia-Sweden).

From limited interactions in the early 1990s, the EU and Central Asia now consider each other to be increasingly important.

Security and defence is the area in which the EU has advanced most in recent years.

Ian Taylor and Karen Smith present a much-needed and full examination of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), covering its history and current activities.

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today's geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices.

Who shapes the European Union's policy towards Latin America?

This book investigates the challenges related to civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) and offers a new perspective by examining the social role of NATO CIMIC soldiers.

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.

An assessment of the capacity of the EU to coordinate actors and policies with regards to global development.

While the role of comparative law in the courts was previously only an exception, foreign sources are now increasingly becoming a source of law in regular use in supreme and constitutional courts.

Poverty narratives have become an unprecedented source of empowerment.

In the wake of the financial crisis, new regulatory measures were introduced which, along with changes in monetary and macroeconomic policy, have transformed the global financial structure.

This book focuses on the way in which public debate and legal practice intersect when it comes to the value of free speech and the need to regulate "e;offensive"e;, "e;blasphemous"e; or "e;hate"e; speech, especially, though not exclusively where such speech is thought to be offensive to members of ethnic and religious minorities.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics is a major new contribution to the study of contemporary European and Greek politics.

Economic Sanctions are increasingly used as a legal, non-military technique of combating abusers of international peace.

The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.

Identifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each.

This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

The focus of this book is to analyse from a number of perspectives the politics of change in Ireland north and south since 1969.

Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it.