International Institutions

First Published in 1993. Succession between international organizations is a controversial topic. What is it about the topic that provokes such div...

International organisations (IOs) often receive a bad press, seen as intrusive, domineering and unresponsive to the needs of the people and countri...

Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to countries ...

As the EU enters an increasingly uncertain phase after the 2016 Brexit referendum, Euroscepticism continues to become an increasingly embedded phen...

This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice...

Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edi...

This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider con...

This volume examines the promotion and defense of democracy in the Americas. Taking the Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) of 2001 as a basel...

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of...

A key textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary European politics, European Union: Power and policy-making 4th edition o...

Different survey-based and case study research has shown that, since the 1980s, minority nationalist parties have become increasingly supportive of...

This volume is a key text for understanding the major regional international organizations of the Middle East. Analysing the Arab League, the Gulf ...

This book examines the effectiveness of multilateralism in ensuring collective security and, in particular, the EU’s role in this process. In 1992,...

The global financial and economic crisis struck the European Union and its member states with particular force from 2009 onwards. The immediate pro...

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

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions (HCPI) is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to our accumulated know...

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization.' At one level, this is merely a rhetorical device to make globalization...

Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edi...

This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and th...

This book explains German behaviour in the European Community in terms of domestic politics of Federal Republic, covering the period 1969-86. It in...

The regulation of issues like abortion, euthanasia, gun control, same-sex unions, pornography, prostitution, drugs, or gambling is commonly referre...

In May 2004, eight former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe acceded to the European Union.This new book examines the Eastern expansion...

This book explores what drives value politics and the way in which it redraws political conflict at EU level. Based on case studies and analyses of...

This book examines a particular type of donor behavior – known as country earmarking of contributions – which occurs within the voluntary financing...

This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the national and subnational levels, ...

The book addresses the impact of the European Union (EU) on subnational mobilization in small unitary states. Located at the intersection of contri...

What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe? Although there is an emerging body of literature on the European...

The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and democratization has become a topic of intense debate. However, the mai...

This book examines the legitimization of the European Union through the development and rapid rotation of narratives aiming to convey its identity ...

Today’s Europe is marked by an amazing pace of integration. The European Union now consists of twenty five member states, however there is confusio...

Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of ...

Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour. Research on budgeting has taken various theoretical and methodological approaches, and these d...

Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of ...

Now that the process of full implementation of European Monetary Union has begun, it is time to shift attention away from the process of introducti...

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number s...

This book reviews the formative years of the United Nations (UN) under its first Secretary-General Trygve Lie. This welcome appraisal shows how the...

What happens to European Union (EU) fiscal policy coordination in hard times? Recent accounts of the EU have portrayed the union as plagued by an a...

This book i sone of two volumes in which leading scholars examine the way in which EU member states co-ordinate their European policies. Eschewing ...

Economic and monetary union in the European Union represents a massive change for Europe and for the world. The Road to Maastricht identifies why t...

European integration is progressing at an even more rapid rate. Accompanying this progress is an increasing debate about the institutional shape an...

After three decades of remarkable progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups in many parts of the world began to...

How severe a problem is what many call the 'democratic deficit' of the European Union? Despite a voluminous theoretical literature dealing with thi...

Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics. While mediation, intervention, and peacekeeping have produced some positive res...

This book offers original analysis of relations between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Albania, with a particular focus on 2008–2025 pe...