International institutions

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

In the late eighties and early nineties, driven by the post-Cold War environment and lessons learned during military operations, United States policy makers made intelligence support to the military the Intelligence Community's top priority.

Europe is currently experiencing a "e;refugee crisis"e;, demonstrated by millions of displaced people unseen since World War II.

There is a woeful neglect of the current United Nations in the academic and policy literatures, and so it is unsurprising that an examination of that multilateral structure before 1945 shows an even more egregious absence of analytical attention.

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment.

The notion of a single political organization encompassing the whole of humanity-a world state-has intrigued mankind since earliest recorded history.

This collection reflects on the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for the transatlantic alliance.

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed.

Europe's Border Crisis explores current dynamics in EU border security and migration management.

In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration.

Documents the struggle of the European Commission to maintain its autonomy in a complex institutional setting and adverse political environment.

Justice and democracy can be mutually reinforcing in global governance, a domain where both are currently lacking.

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory.

Tracing the changing activities of international bureaucracies active in global climate and energy governance, this book provides an in-depth analysis of processes of institutional innovation and governance integration between the two fields.

Great-power conflict and great-power war are still the most dangerous risks the international community is facing today.

The notion of Differentiated Integration is increasingly used in the literature on European integration.

Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis.

This book describes, analyses, explains and compares the role performance of different presidencies.

A timely and provocative account of why the euro has failed and why, as a result, the Union will unravel Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency.

New Zealanders love to sing together, and we've done so in choirs for over 200 years.

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups.

In 1969 a small group of US scholars began discussing the possibility of starting a consortium of Western European Studies programmes.

The book is a single, practical, comprehensive guide to treaty making.

Offering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO.

This book examines the growing interaction between private enterprises and public officials to challenge foreign trade barriers.

Teaches how and why states make, break, and uphold international law using accessible explanations and contemporary international issues.

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment.

Global business tends to be perceived as a number of individual but powerful multinational corporations, capable of controlling markets and influencing political decisions; in fact, global business is highly organized through a plethora of associations that bring together competing companies and conflicting national businesses.

This book analyzes how, and under what conditions, African International Economic Organizations (IEO) have evolved, and what individual and collective contributions, if any, these African IEOs have had on Africa's socio-economic development.

Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide is a collection of hypothetical 'last lectures' by some of the top scholars and practitioners across the globe in the fields of human rights and genocide studies.

While the relationship between norms and the state is an omnipresent research theme in International Relations, most international theory - from classical liberalism to recent constructivism - continues to treat 'normative state power' as an analytical impossibility.

The relationship between human rights and justice is significant, deep, and ultimately contested.

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Two decades since the watershed of the Cold War, this book investigates NATO's staying power.

This book assesses the diplomatic path of influence taken by German decision-makers during the early nineties in pursuit of their cautiously articulated interest in and commitment to the eastward enlargement of NATO.

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions (HCPI) is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to our accumulated knowledge and the cutting edge of scholarship about political institutions in the comparative context.

The third edition of this book incorporates more than 10 years of fascinating dynamics since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

Traces, explains and evaluates processes of democratic ideological representation from voter choices, through election laws, to the formation of parliamentary governments.

The Politics of Self-Determination examines the territorial restructuring of Europe between 1917 and 1923, when a radically new and highly fragile peace order was established.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world's leading international Islamic organization.

This book mainly introduces the concepts and approaches of global governance from the viewpoints of Chinese and Russian scholars and is divided into four parts.

This edited volume examines the competitive dynamics of two order-building projects in the Indo-Pacific, namely China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the US-led Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP).

This book explores how the structures of international organizations have become increasingly complex and considers why states choose to become part of networks of international organizations alongside non-state actors.

In 2009 and 2010, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights underwent significant reforms to their respective judicial appointments processes.

Contesting Global Order traces dominant values and patterns on a world level over the last half century.

The chapters in this volume identify and assess the political process and bases of support for multilateralism in terms of the shifting power relations in world politics, institutional innovations in the United Nations and non-UN multilateralisms.

This book represents an unusual intervention in debates about the nature of contemporary international development, where the majority of scholarship tends to concern itself with measuring or collating goal performance.