International institutions

Since 1996 a growing number of European employees have access to a European works council (EWC), a transnational employee body designed to complement national forms of labour representation .

This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU's extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in relation to two Mediterranean countries - Jordan and Turkey.

Ayse Kaya analyses the relationship between states'' economic power and their political power in key multilateral economic institutions.

Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals.

In this book, a diverse group of experts explore the tension between international economic rules and national autonomy.

Calais has a long history of transient refugee settlements and is often narrated through the endeavour to 'sanitize' it by both the English and the French in their policy and media discourses.

The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state.

First published in 1999, this volume draws on the theories of integration, credible policy commitments and convergence, this book demonstrates that the problematic evolution of the EU-Turkey relations has been due to an anchor / credibility dilemma: neither Turkey's European orientation was a credible commitment nor was the EU's anchoring capacity resolute enough to make policy reversals in Turkey less likely.

Most regions of the world are plagued by conflicts that are made insoluble by a confluence of complex threads from history, geography, politics, and culture.

States, Debt, and Power argues for the importance of situating our contextually influenced thinking about European states and debt within a commitment to historically informed and critical analysis.

Presents a series of distinct sociological inquiries into the formation of contemporary European law and society.

Originally published in 1988, this book was written at a time when many nations were engaged in various forms of ocean boundary making.

This book revisits and interrogates the evolution of the Responsibility to Protect in search of the root cause of R2P's failure to date.

The Difficult Construction of European Banking Union examines the political, legal and economic issues surrounding the lacunae and design faults of European Banking Union and its problematic operation.

This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector.

For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses through which to examine them.

This book explores the question of whether peacekeeping commanders can be held accountable for a failure to protect the civilian population in the mission area.

For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time.

This volume addresses developments in European space policy and its significance for European integration, using discourse theory as a framework.

Authoritarianism and the Evolution of West European Electoral Politics provides a novel explanation of rising Euroscepticism and right-wing populism in Western Europe.

This book examines the role of French-German cooperation within European military cooperation and European defence, and particularly the CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy).

Over the last twenty years, the role of national parliaments in EU affairs has gained considerable academic attention.

This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War and how they relate to the United Nations (UN).

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

The first authoritative commentary on a major new codification of the equality principle as applied to investor-state dispute settlement.

An analysis of the EU''s role in fighting crime within the area of freedom, security and justice.

Twenty-First Century World Powers and Changing Alignments provides an in-depth analysis of global political relations that exist between the most powerful countries of the world such as United States, Russia, England, China and others.

Using the example of Werner Faymann, Dalia Grybauskaite, Angela Merkel, Viktor Orban and Mark Rutte, the book examines the impact that the European Council's environment has on leadership styles and the impact of leaders on the institution's decision-making during the financial and debt crisis, the Ukraine crisis, and the migration crisis (2010-2016).

This book examines the interface between the theoretical framework known as the English School and the international and transnational politics of Southeast Asia.

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

The European Union (EU) is facing one of the rockiest periods in its existence.

This book explores the political struggle to interpret and define the meaning, the scope and the implications of human rights norms in general and freedom of expression in particular.

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

The rapid evolution of events in the European, Middle Eastern, and North African spheres has reinvigorated the debate on Euro-Mediterranean relations.

The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism.

With the end of the Cold War, the UN has shown a new dynamism, reflecting a qualitative change in attitudes and perceptions of the international community.

As the UN celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is embroiled in controversy sparked by its recent extensive involvement in operations which go beyond traditional peacekeeping.

A concise account of the key investment-protection provisions of the controversial Energy Charter Treaty.

A definitive reassessment of the constitutional, economic, institutional and judicial dimensions of the EU internal market, including Brexit.

The main focus of this book is a review of how the Common Fisheries Policy is enforced throughout the Community, with a discussion of its successes and failures.

When considering the structures that drive the global diffusion of human rights norms, Brian Greenhill argues that we need to look beyond institutions that are explicitly committed to human rights and instead focus on the dense web of international government organizations (IGOs)-some big, some small; some focused on human rights; some not-that has arisen in the last two generations.

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has long been key in non-proliferation and disarmament activities.

This title explores the normative foundations of European contract law.

This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade.

Delivering a ground-breaking analysis of the EU's diplomatic meetings (or dialogues) with China, this book reveals how the EU's values rarely feature in exchanges, due to ingrained cultures of complacency and self-censorship amongst EU officials.

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

In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans.