International institutions

This book explores one of the central challenges facing the EU today - how to reconcile enlargement with the pursuit of a stronger and more effective European Union.

Differentiated integration has become a durable feature of the European Union and is a major alternative for its future development and reform.

Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the impact of the EU's 'new generation' free trade agreements on workers.

This book seeks to think differently about what we recognize as "e;global institutions"e; and how they could work better for the people who need them most.

Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene.

This new Handbook provides readers with the tools to understand the evolution of transatlantic security from the Cold War era to the early 21st century.

This book contributes to current debates on the protection of human rights in the 21st century.

Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities.

By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

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 critically engages with NATO's two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the International Committee of the Red Cross from its origins up to the present day.

One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States.

Do individual constitutions, and the legal cultures underlying them, pose an obstacle to future EU integration?

This book connects the scholarly discussions on 'security' and 'resilience', by examining the various definitions and meanings of the terms in the EU's Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy, and in what ways the EU has attempted to define the relationship between security and resilience in its official rhetoric and in policy practice.

Analyzing the use of civilization in Russian-language political and media discourses, intellectual and academic production, and artistic practices, this book discusses the rise of civilizational rhetoric in Russia and global politics.

This Handbook provides an essential overview of the contemporary dynamics of the Mediterranean region.

Dangerous Diplomacy reassesses the role of the UN Secretariat during the Rwandan genocide.

How are the rising mutual concerns of Asian and European countries shaping their approaches to the international order?

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.

In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works and explores its successes, failings, and current limitations.

What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)?

For every year since 1983 the Buddhist leader and thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has issued a peace proposal that presents solutions to a variety of global problems.

This volume explores ethnicity and gender developments in relation to the military.

Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world's first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative a la television europeenne (ARTE).

This book provides an overview of crimes under international law, radical evils, in a number of African states.

This book presents a comparative perspective to the study of European politics, focusing on the unique and transformative effect of European Union on the politics of its member states - in effect, the Europeanization of European politics.

In diesem Buch wird die Annahme, dass zeitgenössische innerstaatliche Konflikte von vielfältigen Entgrenzungsprozessen geprägt sind, sowohl theoretisch hergeleitet als auch empirisch plausibilisiert.

The book advances the state of the European Union's policy theory by taking stock of seven promising frameworks of the policy process, systematically comparing their limitations and strengths, and offering a strategy to develop robust research agendas.

Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind?

An in-depth study of the Eurozone''s economic governance and its constitutional foundations.

This book analyzes new developments in human rights, intellectual property, disarmament, and migration from a perspective rooted in Vatican tradition.

In a relatively short time, the EU has become one of the most important actors on the world stage.

This key resource for anyone interested in the United Nations, global issues, or world politics provides accessible and comprehensive coverage of the history, growth, and development of ideas and institutions governing the globe.

Rebuts the pervasive ''folk'' notion that quagmire is intrinsic to a country or civil war.

This book is a study of power.

A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the world's poorest countries.

A collection of essays that surveys the development and structure of the European Union''s constitutional regime for foreign affairs.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most extensive and widely ratified international human rights treaty.

The book offers a systematic discussion of the facets of the relationship between the European Union and customary international law.

Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot?

This book investigates various dimensions of the economic conflicts between the US - and other democratic market-economy countries - and state-capitalist communist China in the past decade, examining how differences in institutions and ideology bring these about.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world's leading international Islamic organization.

A comparative study contributing to international relations and international political economy theory, raising substantive issues relating to aid, development, international relations and globalization.

The crisis of Northern capitalism and failure of hegemonic global governance have created a facilitative environment for post-hegemonic initiatives promoting South-South cooperation.

This Book attempts to deduce regulatory standards that can close the gaps between the Promises made and the Outcomes secured by the United Nations in relation to its use of force.

This volume offers new perspectives on the evolution of the trade-development nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the international context.

When it comes to spotting political abuses and covert conspiracies designed to strip Americans of their rights and freedoms, no one is more vigilant than #1 New York Times bestselling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Screwed!

The United Nations is a vital part of the international order.