International Institutions

This collection of essays has been assembled to mark the centenary of The Round Table. It provides an analysis of the modern Commonwealth since the...

The end of communism and accession to the European Union have had a huge impact on Poland. This book provides an overall assessment of the post-198...

Smart teachers know that increased school budgets and taxes do notalways lead to better educational programs and services. Classroomsare often the ...

This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical st...

Today's public and private schools can no longer rely ontraditional sources of funding to fulfill their educational goals.Although grants have beco...

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis after the Lisbon Treaty came into force of the EU Presidency's impact on national administrations...

The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its ...

This new book takes a unique approach to the study of European enlargement, tackling key questions.What kind of understanding of the EU do the enla...

The Annual Review, produced in association with the JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, ...

The Economies of European Union Small Member and Candidate States deals with the small states and candidate states of the EU, with a focus on their...

This book argues that we can understand and explain the EU as a security and peace actor through a framework of an updated and deepened concept of ...

This book analyses how national parliaments and parliamentary parties performed their legislative, representative and control functions during the ...

"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an ext...

International organizations are ubiquitous in contemporary Europe and the wider world. This book is the first systematic assessment of the interact...

The UN Military Staff Committee is a misunderstood organ, and never really worked as it was initially envisaged. This book charts its historic deve...

Contributors from Japan, Korea, and China explore the reaction of the United Nations to emerging global issues.A collaboration between the Japan As...

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, d...

This book brings together the expertise of economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists in order to integrate diverse perspec...

While clearly assessing the achievements, performance and responses of major global south institutions to global change, Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-W...

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), its role in inter...

The Western Balkans have seen rapid changes since the end of the violent conflicts in the 1990s. The EU has been one of the main drivers for change...

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide a...

This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is no...

Against the backdrop of disintegrative tendencies in the EU, where Brexit perhaps most profoundly captures the spirit of current developments in th...

Since the great financial crisis in 2008, the Group 20 (G20) has played an increasingly important role in global economic governance as an emerging...

The EU seeks to define a role for itself in power politics while remaining firm in its rejection of power politics. In order to make power compatib...

For four decades now, information and communication technologies have been seen as principal drivers of socio-economic change. Stimulated in recent...

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, d...

The literature on environmental politics and regional governance has mainly been dedicated to the role played by the European Union (EU). The analy...

This text suggests solutions to the obstacles facing the USA and European Union as they race to secure their positions in the global information ag...

Through detailed comparative case studies of civil society engagement with two major regional international organizations in Southeast Asia this bo...

In 1991 South Korea, along with North Korea, was made an official member of the UN. Using international relations theory, this book begins by looki...

This study is the first to offer explanations for compliance with G7 commitments by identifying the patterns, explaining the causes and exploring t...

How institutional conflicts arise in international political orders and the conditions shaping the outcomes of such conflicts has become the object...

The past few decades have witnessed the development of an increasingly globalised and multipolar world order, in which the demand for multilaterali...

The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment jargon referring to...

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...