International institutions

2009 wurde die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention zur gleichberechtigten Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft verabschiedet.

Dieses Buch gibt dem Leser Einblicke in die Arbeitsweise der etwas verborgenen Welt der globalen Entwicklungs-Organisationen auf dem Gebiet der Wasserwirtschaft im landwirtschaftlichen Sektor.

This book sheds new light on how lobbying works in the European Union.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external action.

This book depicts the role of both formal and informal institutions in achieving long-term economic efficiency and development.

This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies.

This new work examines how the European states, the United Kingdom and the United States will approach the defence and Security of Europe in the medium and long-term.

"e;This is a must-read book for anyone searching for insight into the peace process of the divided Korean peninsula.

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.

The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present.

We are told again and again that the world has become increasingly complex and indecipherable.

Hierarchical relationships-rules that structure both international and domestic politics-are pervasive.

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners.

Russia's intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump's presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative and institutional architecture that diminished the importance of material power.

This book examines civil society empowerment during the EU enlargement process.

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact.

This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice.

The field of peacemaking is in turbulent change.

Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies.

With existing literature focusing largely on Western perspectives of peace and their applications, a global understanding of peace is much needed.

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

Much attention has been paid to the ongoing and unpredictable Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK, but much less on what the absence of the UK might entail for the remaining 27 EU Member States.

This book analyses whether European leaders are able to deal with the 'hard power' problems of military provocation, mass migration, and terrorism.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This book offers a theoretically informed study of recent Chinese initiatives to provide forms of regional economic governance; or as it is often termed in Chinese discourses, regional "e;public goods"e;.

This book focuses on current key issues of international security from an actor-centered approach.

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

This book discusses the role of gender and participation within the context of budgeting and planning.

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid.

This volume summarizes, synthesizes, updates, and contextualizes Turkey's multiple roles in global governance.

This book discusses the many legal aspects arising in relation to the maintenance of peace in Africa.

This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution's first decade.

This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School's conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society.

This book describes the problems of intelligence sharing among peacekeeping partners, mainly due to security concerns and a lack of policies and resources.

Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff, the 1990 Economic Community of West Africa-Liberian Civil War Challenge, and the 1990-91 European Communities-Balkans Crisis.

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states.

In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "e;transit,"e; "e;destination,"e; "e;European,"e; "e;Muslim"e; and "e;safe.

This book is a researched study of land issues in American Samoa that analyzes the impact of U.

This book analyses trends and changes in the European Union's (EU) humanitarian aid policy, by focusing on the performance of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs).

In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan.

This book analyzes the shifting global economic architecture, indicating the decentralizing authority in global economic governance since the Cold War and, especially, following the 2008-09 global financial crisis.

This book presents a case study of human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK, with a focus on practical measures for ending this trafficking.

This book constitutes an up-to-date methodology reference work for International Relations (IR) scholars and students.

This book reveals how conflicting worldviews are at the root of public controversies on policy and trade issues.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders.

This book presents a new approach to studying the European Union's regional and global relevance.

This book examines how European issues have played out in Serbian and Croatian party politics since 2000, in the context of significant challenges brought by European integration of the Western Balkans.

This book examines the practice of international election observation in a Caribbean context.

This book brings together thirteen selected papers presented in the Third International Seminar on Science and Geopolitics of Arctic-Antarctic-Himalaya, held in India in September 2015.