International institutions

This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement.

The EU continuously searches for more effective policy towards its eastern neighbourhood, which is reflected in the on-going adaptation of its existing approaches, discourses and policy strategies to the new challenges of its external environment.

Currently, some 2,500 civilian experts work across Europe, Africa, and Asia in ten ongoing civilian missions launched under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).

The crisis in Europe is often discussed as a crisis of European integration or a crisis of national economies within Europe.

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

The European Union and Global Financial Regulation examines the influence of the European Union (EU) in regulating global finance, addressing several inter-related questions.

Recent enlargement to the east made the European Union a more diverse social space and brought it into more direct contact with the social and cultural aftermath of communism.

Analyzing the role and impact of Diaspora Organizations (DOs) in International Relations (IR), this interdisciplinary volume provides empirical accounts of their work across Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East.

The first book to focus in depth on ASEAN''s external relations, written by leading globally-based scholars.

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

This is the first comprehensive study of corruption in international investment arbitration.

This Expo book brings together leading academic and policymaker experts to reflect on the significant challenges faced by lagging regions in participating in the European Union's Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) programme.

This Element discusses institutional cooperation in populist foreign policy and its implications for the Liberal International Order.

UN peace operations are increasingly asked to pursue stabilization mandates with lofty expectations of being able to stabilize conflict zones, achieve national reconciliation, and rebuild state legitimacy.

This book describes the emergence of research policy as a key competence of the European Union (EU).

This book examines the problems of boundary demarcation and its impact on territorial disputes, and offers techniques to manage and resolve the resulting conflicts.

Migration has become business, big business.

European Union boundaries have always been unusual.

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 edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper.

The collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria begs the question as to why that country so lacked institutional and organized capacity that the Syrian state melted away.

This completely revised and rewritten handbook gives an overview of international organization (IO) as a dynamic field of research that adds to our understanding of global and regional relations and related domestic politics.

International organizations have once more become subjects of investigation for a whole range of scholars: political scientists, international relations specialists, organization theorists, and policy experts alike.

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport.

Globalization and the development of multinational organizations have led to an increase in the number of people spending part of their lives living and working in foreign countries.

The United Nations General Assembly is arguably the most important discussion forum in global politics.

This Commentary gives a detailed description of the meaning and application of the ICSID Convention.

International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard.

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.

Twenty-First Century Populism analyses the phenomenon of sustained populist growth in Western Europe by looking at the conditions facilitating populism in specific national contexts and then examining populist fortunes in those countries.

Through an interdisciplinary analytic lens that combines debates emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology, Valeria Bello reveals how transnational dynamics have increased extremism, prejudiced attitudes towards others and international xenophobia.

This book outlines the content of the main treaties that form the 'constitutional' basis of the European Union and analyses changes in these over time.

This is the first book to present a critical analysis of the concept of the European Model of Sport (EMS).

This book analyses the multidimensional influence of COVID-19 on world politics, with a special focus on Euro-Asian relations, as well as changes in Europe caused by the pandemic.

This volume brings together expert case studies on a range of experiences of third-party interventions in civil wars.

Originally published in 1995 and now available as an ebook.

This book of essays,the product of a conference held at the University of Birmingham in the spring of 1998, contains contributions from a group of extremely distinguished scholars in the fields of both public and private law.

This volume takes stock of twenty years of practising and studying codecision in the European Union (EU) and examines the procedure's long-term implications for the EU's institutions, politics and policies.

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.

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

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but others endure?

This book examines the process of Poland's accession negotiations to the European Union between 1998-2003.

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

The emergence of The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2005 was the culmination of a long and contentious process.

Organized around the major events that marked Hammarskjold's eight and a half years in office, this volume takes stock of Hammarskjold first as a person and then as an international functionary.

International Relations (IR), as a discipline, is a western dominated enterprise.

Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented.

This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance.