International institutions

This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies based on nuclear weapons for the Northeast Asian region.

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.

At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world's leaders constructed a new "e;sustainable development"e; paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development.

'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING.

December 2019 was a catastrophe for Labour.

The development of antidiscrimination policy in Europe closely mirrored European Union deepening in the 1990s, but its roots lie in developments during the 1980s.

This major new textbook for students in European law uses a text, cases and materials approach to explore the law, politics, policy and practice of EU external relations, and navigates the complex questions at the interface of these areas.

Based on interviews with 137 top Commission officials, this 2002 book challenges assumptions about the European Commission.

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.

In recent years States have made more and more extensive use of the International Court of Justice for the judicial settlement of disputes.

This book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia.

This book examines the ability of the EU and European actor networks to coherently and effectively navigate, manage, and influence debates and policy on the international stage.

The contributors to this book examine the conceptual issues relating to the link between conflict and poverty as well as presenting case studies of countries often regarded as 'hot spots' for conflict in Africa.

The first holistic and thematic study of EU health law, and its implications, through its own internal logics.

Accessible and comprehensive, this book puts forth an innovative perspective on international aid, going beyond top-down attempts to centre local voices and practices.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of UNICEF's development and operations, whilst exploring the significance of UNICEF's achievements and the reasons behind them.

Before the UN could be created the idea of a global body dedicated to the preservation of peace had first to be imagined.

This book provides a holistic view on the topics of peace and conflict, peace education, international relations and regional studies during the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

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

At the turn of the century, the United States is on the verge of losing its vote in the General Assembly for non-payment of its arrears.

This book seeks to understand the obligations of the international community to promote and protect state and human security in situations of international humanitarian crises.

If one lesson emerges clearly from fifty years of European integration it is that political aims should be pursued by overtly political means, and not by roundabout economic or legal strategies.

This book investigates the politics of transatlantic trade, specifically the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.

Originally published in 1958, this book assesses the continuity and variety of international societies as they have existed in recent history.

Advancing a constructivist conceptual approach, this book explains the surprising outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP countries).

This unique study of military unionism shows how the changing nature of present day conflicts has made soldier representation more important then ever.

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners.

Since the beginning of the European Community students of international politics and of international, resp.

Latin America is a region made up of multiple states and societies with a diversity of races, ethnicities, and cultures.

The Internal Market Act 2020 provides the foundation for freedom of trade within the UK following Brexit.

This book analyses trends and changes in the European Union's (EU) humanitarian aid policy, by focusing on the performance of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs).

The United Nations in the 21st Century, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the UN.

International Humanitarian NGOs and State Relations: Politics, Principles and Identity examines the often discordant relationship between states and international non-governmental organisations working in the humanitarian sector.

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What do we imagine when we imagine Europe and the European Union?

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union.

This book explores the emergence of an ius puniendi outside state criminal law and beyond international criminal law.

The security concerns of the United Nations today extend far beyond what the writers of the 1945 Charter could have imagined.

The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance.

How do arbitrators decide in the face of the uncertainty of the law between alternatives which may be equally justified?

This comparative work examines the political and social context of interest groups in Malta and Ireland, two small island states at the periphery of an integrated continent.

This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s.

The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step towards a new stage of unification: towards a more federal Europe based on market integration.

Policy-Driven Democratization  offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one complete and coherent package of democratization.

This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africa's actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the country's positions on civil and political rights, economic rights and development, social groups whose rights are frequently violated, and abuses in specific countries.

This book focuses on one critical challenge: climate change.

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972), adeliger Herkunft, gilt als Visionär und Wegbereiter der Europäischen Union.