International institutions

This book examines everyday borders in the UK and Calais as sites of ethical political struggle between segregation and solidarity.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system.

This book provides a comprehensive study into the promotion of regional integration as a central pillar of European Union (EU) relations with the rest of the world.

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance.

This volume demonstrates the application of the constructivist approach to the analysis of foreign policy (i.

In a context of neoliberal globalization, have the processes of elaboration and implementation of foreign investors' responsibilities by intergovernmental organizations reached the realm of legality?

Comparing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Nations and the European Union across a range of different issue areas, this volume examines how the choice of venue and institution affects the strategies of NGOs.

This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the UN Security Council by analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of these proposals would actually create a representative and more effective Security Council.

While the EU legitimacy crisis and the Great Recession prevail, certain European Union principles and policies have to be implemented in the member states.

The European Parliament in the Contested Union provides a systematic assessment of the real influence of the European Parliament (EP) in policy-making.

This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic.

This book examines the Europeanization of the polity and politics of a new EU Member State.

Addressing the problem of reconciling China's voting record in the UN on human rights and repressive policy at home, this book argues that domestic factors determine the way the Chinese government acts on wider human rights issues.

It is commonplace that political power is becoming more centralized and remote: faceless people, sometimes in unknown places, determine our circumstances and our opportunities.

This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events.

Since the 1957 Rome Treaty, the European Union has changed dramatically - in terms of its composition, scope and depth.

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.

Under the relevant rules of international law, treaties are interpreted in accordance with the ordinary meaning of the language they use, their object and purpose, and the intention of the drafters, but also in light of the subsequent practice of its parties.

This edited book provides a range of perspectives on the handling of particular aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic across the principal states of South Asia.

In Justice in the EU: The Emergence of Transnational Solidarity, Floris de Witte argues that European Union law can be understood as an instrument for the elaboration of what justice is, means, and requires on the level beyond the nation state.

Europeanization and Informal Networks in Southeastern Europe considers the impact of political culture, including informal rules which regulate political behaviour, on formal political processes.

The global financial crisis that reached its peak in late 2008 has brought the importance of financial services regulation and supervision into the spotlight.

This book looks at how Europeanisation affects the link between citizenship and governance in and across the new states of South East Europe.

This book argues that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Libyan people played an important role in the U.

An original new textbook providing an up-to-date, critical perspective of how the EU works, and what issues it faces, in the post-crisis era.

In less than 100 years, international organizations have evolved from curiosities into keystones of international law.

This book asks how the European Union can tackle the constitutional conundrum caused by the Euro crisis.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the relations between US philanthropic foundations (in particular the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and the League of Nations.

Introduces the European Union through the lens of comparative politics.

This volume explores the Western-led liberal order that is claimed to be in crisis.

From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War.

This book explores the nature and scope of the provision requiring States to 'ensure respect' for international humanitarian law (IHL) contained within Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2016.

Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid.

The institutional procedures for the UN's decision-making on issues of global peace and security, first and foremost the Security Council (SC), were conceived with the objective of enabling a swift but internationally coordinated response to irregular situations of crises.

A succinct, dogmatically sound commentary to the most relevant EU instrument on international contracts.

Religion is becoming increasingly important to the study of political science and to re-examine key concepts, such as democracy, securitization, foreign policy analysis, and international relations.

An original new textbook providing an up-to-date, critical perspective of how the EU works, and what issues it faces, in the post-crisis era.

This book expands our understanding of the so-far-overlooked territorial dimension of the EU's knowledge policies crossing policy area boundaries.

In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States.

This edited volume proposes that an understanding of ASEAN - its development and institutionalization - is invaluable to our conception of international relations theory in the Asian context.

This book is about law, but it is not a law book.

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

This book traces the evolution of the UN Security Council's actions against terrorism and extremism.

In Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts, Mukarrum Ahmed discusses the impact of Brexit upon jurisdiction, foreign judgments, and the applicable law in civil and commercial matters.

An examination of the conflict between trade concerns and national governments'' use of public procurement as a policy tool.

Presents a challenge to international relations scholars to think globally, understanding the field''s development in the Global South alongside the traditionally dominant Western approach.