International institutions

There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia.

Provides the first in-depth exploration of rules of origin in ASEAN''s trade agreements, insightful to practitioners, policymakers and businesses.

Seeking to open paths for reconsidering the trade and development relationship at the WTO, this book takes into account both the heritage of the trade regime and its present dynamics.

This book examines the interplay between sanctions and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

This book shows how a constructivist account of bargaining sheds new light on the emergence of impasse situations in international trade negotiations.

As a result of global dynamics-the increasing interconnection of people and places-innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet.

Das Buch durchdenkt verschiedene Modelle einer engeren Einbindung der EU im IWF und zeigt auf, ob und inwieweit sich einzelne Vorschläge und Ansätze vor dem Hintergrund des geltenden Völkervertragsrechts und der Interessenlage der IWF-Mitgliedstaaten umsetzen lassen.

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.

Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system.

This updated and revised second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding contains cutting-edge analyses of contemporary attempts to reach and sustain peace.

New Europe is a rhetorical term used by some analysts to describe European post-communist transition success stories.

This edited volume critically examines the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a guiding norm in international politics.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union's social role in the world, assessing the EU's ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives.

This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies.

The end of the Cold War has been accompanied by renewed enthusiasm over the potential of security institutions in Europe.

International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in developing states.

The League of Nations, one of the world's first multi-function intergovernmental organisations, was also one of the first to undergo liquidation.

This comprehensive volume is the first systematic effort to explore the ways in which recognised states and international organisations interact with secessionist 'de facto states', while maintaining the position that they are not regarded as independent sovereign actors in the international system.

The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE).

The limited scope of participation in the making of EU law remains a continued source of controversy, featuring prominently in recent institutional and political developments that have been shaping the EU's constitutional framework - most intensely in the follow up of the Commission's White Paper on Governance.

This book reflects on the questions raised by the European Election Study 2004 whose analytical focus was on the legitimacy of EU politics after Eastern enlargement.

This edited volume is based on the European Law Institute's (ELI) project 'Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law'.

Environmental concerns have pushed the decarbonisation of the European economy high on the EU political agenda.

Die letzten zwanzig Jahre des Kalten Krieges brachten trotz aller Konflikte eine neue, auf antagonistische Kooperation und Transformation ausgelegte Dynamik in die Ost-West- Beziehungen.

After Empires describes how the end of colonial empires and the changes in international politics and economies after decolonization affected the European integration process.

This book asks whether the well-established privilege against self-incrimination applies to corporations, whether it should, and if so, to what extent.

Despite nearly sixty years of European integration, neither nations nor national loyalties have withered away.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the extent to which policies and institutions of the European Union (EU) spread across different contexts.

This book explores the dynamics behind Romania's relationship with the European Union from the collapse of the Ceaucescu regime in 1989, to its recent accession to the EU in 2007.

In The Simple Art of Voting, Delia Baldassarri provides a new understanding of how voting works by focusing on how choices are made rather than on what their outcomes are.

This comprehensively revised and updated edition offers an introduction to international organizations (IO) theory in the field of IR.

Multilateralism has served as a foundation for international cooperation over the past several decades.

Museums, Refugees and Communities explores the ways in which museums in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK have responded to the complexities and ethical dilemmas involved in discussing the reasons for, and issues surrounding, contemporary refugee displacements.

What does the 'internal market' mean?

Fully revised and updated from the successful first edition, this title analyses the practice of international courts and tribunals with regard to the valuation of investment claims against states, paying specific attention to the question of interest.

Since the early 2000s, reforms in the area of public ethics have represented a significant part in the European Commission's efforts to improve its internal governance and democratic legitimacy, and address the crisis of public confidence in European integration.

The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agency for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation for over sixty years.

A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsOur human rights are endangered.

This book is a multidisciplinary study examining the creation of a European Criminal Record.

This book provides a systematic analysis of reform measures aimed at strengthening the implementation of the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) doctrine, utilising a cosmopolitan lens.

This book explores the role and relevance of non-state actors (NSAs) in the international system by analyzing the ways these actors gain influence in the United Nations (UN).

As European security structures are undergoing transformation in the 1990s it is crucial to examine their origins and rationale: NATO secured peace and facilitated economic and political co-operation, while also becoming the vehicle of national rivalry.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 2000.

The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations presents an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique of the United Nations peacekeeping operations.

International organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics.

This book shows how international discourse citing 'self-determination' over the last hundred years has functioned as a battleground between two ideas of freedom: a 'radical' idea of freedom, and a 'liberal-conservative' idea of freedom.