International institutions

This edited volume explores and evaluates the roles of corruption in post-conflict peacebuilding.

What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity?

The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world.

Over the last few years the Arctic has become a region of growing interest to the international community.

While the EU has championed "e;effective multilateralism"e; and experienced a dramatic internal reform process to improve its performance in external relations, broader multilateral processes have also undergone dramatic change.

This study examines how the UN Secretary-General's leadership qualities affect how they address threats to peace and security.

This book is the first comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe's leading power.

This book reviews Southeast Asia's National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights.

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

The essays gathered in this collection examine the involvement of self-governing sub-national and regional actors in the law and policy-making of the European Union.

This book presents a wide range of perspectives on the role of national parliaments in EU politics and policy-making.

Giandomenico Majone explores the reasons behind the failure of the EU system to deliver satisfactory growth performance.

These essays, written in honour of retired ECJ judge Pernilla Lindh, reflect on the development of courts and judging in the EU since the founding of the Union.

The European Union has undergone major changes in the last decade, including Treaty reform, and a significant expansion of activity in foreign and security policy, and justice and home affairs.

A collection of expert essays examines the privacy rights that have been lost in the post-9/11 era-giving students and others the knowledge they need to take back their constitutional protections.

Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948.

This volume aims to improve understanding of nuclear security and the prevention of nuclear terrorism.

Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history.

Explains the United Nations'' key roles in underwriting international security, humanitarian protection and the international rule of law.

Debates on EU foreign policy have been dominated by two opposing schools of argument.

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

This book examines the concept of nationality of means of transportation in terms of jurisdiction in international law.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good.

This edited collection investigates where the European Convention on Human Rights as a living instrument stands on migration and the rights of migrants.

EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission.

This extensively updated second edition explores how individual European labour law systems combine to produce a distinctly European transnational system.

A new introduction to the European Union which uses the lens of comparative politics.

This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution and particularities of regional organizations across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe since 1945.

The global energy sector is in flux, transitioning from reliance on fossil fuels to clean energy sources at an unprecedented pace.

This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today.

Practicing business with a conscience leaves no sector untouched.

Exploring theoretical foundations for the distribution of shared responsibility, this book provides a basis for the development of international law.

This book investigates the important role of local actors in Sierra Leone in helping to foster peace and provide for the needs of vulnerable populations following the end of the civil war.

We are in the middle of a fundamental transformation of the global order which is challenging the supremacy of the USA, and to a certain extent of Europe, in economic and also in normative terms.

This book examines the important role of the chairmanship office in multilateral negotiations within the UN setting.

This handbook is a one-stop, comprehensive guide to global initiatives for climate action.

This book explores and assesses the multiple levels at which linguistic policies can be challenged, devised and enacted, i.

European integration has transformed the social life of European citizens.

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 book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the foundational ideas associated with the human development school of thought.

In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and conceptual thinking on how the use of force was to succeed politically in altering the behavior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).

This book examines the place of multilateralism in Russia's foreign policy and Russia's engagement with multilateral institutions.

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuilding?

What is the role of memories for the expansion of international society?

Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available.

The current European Union (EU) has existed since 1 November 1993.

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication that provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.