Offers the first book-length comparative study of resilience, examining this increasingly influential topic as it is experienced across different countries and policy sectors.
Offers the first book-length comparative study of resilience, examining this increasingly influential topic as it is experienced across different countries and policy sectors.
Investigates the efficacy of the European Union''s promotion of good governance through its funding and conditionalities both within EU proper and in the developing world.
Traces, explains and evaluates processes of democratic ideological representation from voter choices, through election laws, to the formation of parliamentary governments.
Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers ''demoicracy'' as the cure.
Challenges the assumption of the rationality of foreign policy makers in international relations, showing how leaders systematically vary in the rationality of their thinking.
Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers ''demoicracy'' as the cure.
Addresses the internal relations of global capitalism, global war, global crisis, connecting uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and world-ecology to appeal to scholars and students alike.
A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization''s internal tensions.
