Global Institutions
About the Book Series
Founded in 2003 by Professors Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson, and publishing its first volume in 2005, the Global Institutions book series is the benchmark series for works on the history, structure, and activities of international institutions and key issues and processes that permeate therein.
Covering topics of importance in contemporary and historical global governance, titles in the series cover the developments, membership, structure, decision-making procedures, key functions, problems, prospects, and possibilities confronting global institutions today and in the future.
Continuing the dedication of the founding series editors to high-quality, theoretical and empirical engagement with the full range of issues confronting global institutions, privileging knowledge from all perspectives, and publishing works in an accessible form for academic, policymaking, and lay audiences, we welcome new submissions to the series. To discuss proposals for research monographs, edited collections, short form books, and texts from a wide variety of intellectual orientations, theoretical persuasions, and methodological approaches please contact Rob Sorsby, Senior Editor for Politics and IR– [email protected].
Constructivism and Global Governance
1st Edition
By Alice Ba, Matthew Hoffmann
December 01, 2025
This volume provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to social constructivism for use in making sense of global governance. By elucidating processes of social construction—how different actors come to be authoritative rule-makers, how diverse norms and practices come to define global rules, and...
Revitalizing the United Nations: Making and Keeping the Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Tapio Kanninen, John Torpey
October 30, 2025
This book explores whether the United Nations (UN) is relevant in resolving wars when the permanent members of the UN Security Council are directly or indirectly involved. It examines solutions to major wars by applying and testing the UN’s vast experience in mediating and deploying peacekeeping, ...
United Nations Sanctions Regimes and Selective Security
1st Edition
By Thomas Kruiper
August 29, 2025
This book investigates the selective nature of UN sanctions regimes with a specific focus on the post-Cold War era. Legally binding on all members, UN sanctions are the most effective and legitimate non-violent multilateral tools to respond to international security threats. They are also ...
International Aid
1st Edition
By Paul Mosley
January 01, 2025
The book provides an up-to-date overview of the politics by which aid flows are determined and of their impact on development, from the level of the global economy down to the individual household. There is a particular focus on the promise of the Millennium Development Goals to ‘make poverty ...
Realism and Global Governance
1st Edition
By Jennifer Sterling Folker
January 01, 2025
This volume provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to realism for use in making sense of global governance. While realism is arguably the best known mainstream perspective in international relations theory, the literature on international organization (IO) and global governance (GG) ...
The UN Global Compact
1st Edition
By Catia Gregoratti
January 01, 2025
This book opens up the black-box of the UN Global Compact – the archetypical corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative anchored within the United Nations. It appraises the ten-year history, governance, and engagement mechanisms of this unique UN initiative. Building on extensive empirical ...
Interstate Conflicts and the International Civil Aviation Organization: Depoliticization in Multilateral Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Michał M. Kobierecki
September 24, 2024
This book investigates the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and politicized debates held there. The author explores how participants have employed depoliticization as a defensive diplomatic technique in a multilateral forum. Analyzing cases such as the ICAO membership/ statehood of ...
Global Health Governance
2nd Edition
By Sophie Harman, Andreas Papamichail
August 01, 2024
Fully updated for the second edition, this text provides a concise and informative introduction to how global health is governed, exploring the ways in which we understand global health governance, exposing its complex nature, and asking who or what really governs global health, to what outcome, ...
The United Nations Trusteeship System: Legacies, Continuities, and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick, Julius Heise
May 27, 2024
This book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations and international politics. International contributors address the UN ...
Global Environmental Institutions
3rd Edition
By Elizabeth R. DeSombre
April 01, 2024
Global Environmental Institutions provides the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment, describing their creation and operation, decision-making processes, interactions with other institutions, and impact. Fully updated ...
Network Governance of the UN Human Rights Council: Diplomatic, Institutional, and Organizational Actors
1st Edition
By Anatoly Boyashov
January 29, 2024
This book explores how the structures of international organizations have become increasingly complex and considers why states choose to become part of networks of international organizations alongside non-state actors. While granting participation rights to non-state actors, states have been ...
Global Climate and Energy Governance: Towards an Integrated Architecture
1st Edition
By Harald L. Heubaum
September 25, 2023
Tracing the changing activities of international bureaucracies active in global climate and energy governance, this book provides an in-depth analysis of processes of institutional innovation and governance integration between the two fields. It shows that rather than the consequence of a designed ...