International institutions

This book explores the intended and unintended impact of international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state entities (QSEs).

This book analyzes the relations between two geographical areas with different levels of regional institutionalization: the European Union and Latin America.

A comprehensive introduction to the IPCC as an institution, covering its origins, history, processes, participants, products, and influence.

The economic crisis has brought about a watershed in institutional, political, and social relations, reshaping the labour market and the class structure in southern Europe.

Whereas 'democracy' assumes a single demos or people, 'demoi-cracy' refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples.

The National Politics of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans examines the way in which a number of European Union member states, including Germany and France, formulate their policies towards enlargement in the Western Balkans.

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

World football is in crisis.

The regulation of financial markets and companies in Europe has undergone significant changes over the last decade.

Are international courts effective tools for international governance?

Science and technology have long been considered key for development, problem solving and education in low-income countries, and Sweden has been at the forefront of efforts in this area, as one of the first countries to formalize research aid.

Has European integration helped to build peace in Europe and its neighbourhood?

Southern Europe has been hit hard by the global economic crisis and, as such, their welfare states have come under acute strain.

Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989).

International organizations do not always live up to the expectations and mandates of their member countries.

This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past twenty years.

First published in 1950, A Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations presents a collection of documentary material detailing various aspects of the UN Charter.

Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspective of criminal opportunity or routine activity theory.

What were the calculations made by the US and its major allies in the 1960s when they faced the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?

This book analyses the cooperation between the European Union and the United States on internal security and counter-terrorism since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

International investment law is one of the fastest growing areas of international law.

During the 1990s, as widespread perception spread of declining state sovereignty, activists and social movement organizations began to form transnational networks and coalitions to pressure both intergovernmental organizations and national governments on a variety of issues.

Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law.

A critical year in the history of peacekeeping, 1995 saw the dramatic transformation of the role of United Nations' forces in Bosnia from a protective force to being an active combatant under NATO leadership.

What does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)?

The CAP has traditionally been at the core of the European Communities and even now consumes half of the European Union's budget.

The UN Security Council's transition to 'targeted sanctions' in the 1990s marked a revolutionary shift in the locus of the Council's decision-making from states to individuals.

This book explains why the EU is not a 'normative actor' in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy promotion fails.

This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict and examines how, in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system, their peacekeeping, mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding approaches as well as UN peace operations, and asks via an empirical and theoretical analysis, what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.

This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice.

The title of this book, Refugee Performance, suggests there is a constituency of practices that might be unified under a definite term or god forbid to propose a new field of study.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory is a landmark contribution on the politics of the past in Europe today.

Written by best-selling author Edward C.

How do democratic societies maintain the balance between civil rights and security while continuing the fight on global terrorism?

This book offers the first thorough legal analysis of the practice of mixity since the Lisbon Treaty, providing the perspectives of international, EU, and national law.

This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.

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This book investigates how Europe should position itself in an era of growing Chinese-American rivalry.

International organizations (IOs) that focus on refugees are finding themselves spread increasingly thin.

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism.

Even when they don''t want peace, combatants seek out UN peacemaking for its unique tactical, material, and symbolic benefits.

This book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, Covid-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration.

The space occupied by international law in shaping political action is subject to continuing debate and controversy.

This book addresses the important but understudied question of how social scientific knowledge is entangled in the process of European integration.

Are international courts effective tools for international governance?

As Oliver Richmond explains, there is a level to peacemaking that operates in the realm of dialogue, declarations, symbols and rituals.

What is the nature of the relationship between the fields of new technology and EU law?

Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community.

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.