International Institutions

The IRA's ability to exploit the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was central to the organisation's capacity to wage its...

This book explores the pitfalls and bottlenecks of viewing the Arctic from a mere scientific prism and offers recommendations to approach it from a...

In more than one hundred developing countries, international organizations continuously offer practical assistance for economic advancement and soc...

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concept...

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedure...

The contributors investigate processes of international conflict transformation and peaceful cooperation. They highlight how critical intermediary-...

This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with foreign audi...

This study patterns national identity over a number of important historical milestones and brings the debates over Europe up-to-date with an analys...

The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive d...

In 2003, the UN adopted a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers and aid workers. The policy arrived amid a series ...

In 2003, the UN adopted a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers and aid workers. The policy arrived amid a series ...

The authors identify conditions under which firms seek higher rather than lower regulation in a context of weak regulatory capacities by engaging i...

Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective. This book addresses the puzzle of how to app...

Political conflict in Western democracies has traditionally emerged from politics rooted in competing ideologies and interests. With the rise of po...

The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels. How can this process of par...

Providing a thorough and novel account of US and Japanese foreign policymaking toward regional institution-building in post-Cold War Asia, this stu...

Americans and Europeans perceive threat differently. Americans remain more religious than Europeans and generally still believe their nation is pro...

The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage. In this collection, a series of...

Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importa...

Today, extensive interconnected global processes provide non-state actors with a degree of agency that a 'System of States' paradigm cannot account...

Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from...

This book examines the interface between the theoretical framework known as the English School and the international and transnational politics of ...

Thalakada argues that the principal purpose of US alliances have shifted since the end of the Cold War from containing communist expansionism (bala...