International institutions

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

This book provides a step-by-step, insiders' guide on how to lobby and engage successfully at the United Nations.

The European Commission has increasingly focused on the benefits it can derive from the greater participation of organized civil society in its role and activities.

Can it be argued that there exists a concept of Nordic citizenship, founded on inter-Nordic cooperation and its relationship with EU law and EEA law?

Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union challenges the use of uncontextualised comparisons of COVID-19 cases and deaths in member states during the period when Europe was the epicentre of the pandemic.

Presents a comprehensive account of how EU governments signal responsiveness to the interests of their citizens over European policies.

A clear, analytical and balanced guide to the euro experiment and subsequent crisis that will appeal to a wide readership.

Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees.

A nation of peacekeepers or soldiers?

Analyses the content, role and impact of the European Court of Human Rights'' jurisprudence relating to societies in transition.

This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect the establishment of this service in both theory and practice.

This book is the first of a work in two parts addressing the relations between the transnational society and the state.

This book explores post-Soviet Eurasian regional security governance, as embedded in the military alliance of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly recognised as playing a significant role in the health sector in developing countries.

The United Nations in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the United Nations, exploring the historical, institutional, and theoretical foundations of the UN.

Investigates the relationship between the EU, national and international legal orders through the lenses of constitutionalism and pluralism.

Saul, Follesdal and Ulfstein examine in detail the interplay between national parliaments and the international human rights judiciary.

Following the Second World war, South Africa claimed that the League of Nations mandate to administer Namibia had lapsed with the dissolution of that organization, and that it was within its power to annex it.

As European countries become more interdependent, the provision of common goods increasingly must be organized across national boundaries, levels of government, and sectors.

Since the start of the twenty-first century, urban communities have faced increasing challenges in housing affordability, with environmental issues causing additional concern.

This book addresses how to mitigate regional tensions and enhance cooperative opportunities through well-designed regional institutions and organizations among countries in geographical proximity.

The current monograph is the result of many years of work by the author in the field of the understudied concept of network diplomacy and the possibilities of using it in resolving sharp conflicts in order to facilitate their more effective resolution, as well as the possibilities of using the elements of network diplomacy in peaceful spheres of world politics, business and private sector.

Originally published in 1925, written by someone who was associated with the work of the League of Nations from the beginning, this concise book is a clear and short account of the structure, function and tasks of the League of Nations at the start of the Twentieth Century.

Two decades on from the start of the 'Singing Revolution', and five years on from the Baltic States' entry to the European Union, the time is ripe to take stock of Estonia's remarkable transition from Soviet Republic to EU member state and address the challenges - some new, some ongoing - and uncertainties that have arisen following the country's entry to the EU.

This short and well-written overview provides essential information on the history of international organizations (IOs), with particular focus on the League of Nations, the development of the United Nations, and the UN system.

This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region.

The UN Security Council is entrusted under the UN Charter with primary responsibility for the maintenance and restoration of the international peace; it is the only body with the power to authorise military intervention legally and impose international sanctions where it decides.

This Handbook brings together many of the key scholars and leading practitioners in international arbitration, to present and examine cutting-edge knowledge in the field.

Private Law in the External Relations of the EU is an innovative study of the interactions between EU external relations law and private law, two unrelated fields of law, inverted if private law is understood as regulatory private law - the space where regulatory law intersects with private economic activity.

Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods.

En el 75º aniversario de las Naciones Unidas, el mundo se topó con la mayor prueba de fuego que le ha tocado afrontar en conjunto desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial: la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19).

The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has brought about a proliferation of "e;integration principles"e;.

This book examines the changing character of European citizenship, focusing on ''acts'' of citizenship.

The twenty years since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty have been marked by an integration paradox: although the scope of European Union (EU) activity has increased at an unprecedented pace, this increase has largely taken place in the absence of significant new transfers of power to supranational institutions along traditional lines.

Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the basic idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs.

This book examines the roles played by China and Europe in the domain of international security in the 21st century.

This book examines an unexplored method of interpretation: the use of domestic law in the interpretation of international law.

During the Cold War, the U.

This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of traffickers themselves.

The increase in the European Union's executive powers in the areas of economic and financial governance has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of EU law in constituting, framing, and constraining the decision-making processes and political choices that have hitherto supported European integration.

Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion-mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization.

The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment jargon referring to the largest and most attractive emerging economies.

This innovative text provides a fresh approach to Italian politics, providing critical analysis in a comparative framework.

Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response.

Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day.

From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide.

Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs.

The new edition of this established reference work provides a comprehensive and balanced guide to international institutions.

This monograph, which was also designed as a short reference book for specialized undergraduate and graduate courses on EU law, intends to shed light on, and legally frame, the evolution of the doctrine of services of general economic interest (SGEIs).