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].
Bridging Europe’s Divides through Regional Organizations: The Balkans, Brussels, and Beyond
1st Edition
By Melanie H. Ram
June 01, 2026
Amid a crisis of multilateralism on a continent rocked by war, this timely book shines light on the numerous international organizations that have brought together EU and non-EU countries in Europe since the Cold War ended and the Balkans fragmented. These regional and subregional intergovernmental...
The Political Language of Multilateralism in the United Nations
1st Edition
By Anna Kronlund, Teemu Häkkinen, Ratih D. Adiputri
February 12, 2026
This book explores the political language of multilateralism in the context of three United Nations (UN) pillars: human rights, peace and security, and development. Focussing on the debates, ideas, and practices of international cooperation that have dominated the UN agenda since the early ...
Interstate Conflicts and the International Civil Aviation Organization: Depoliticization in Multilateral Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Michał M. Kobierecki
January 30, 2026
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 ...
The UN Charter, the Refugee Convention and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine: Towards a Preventative Protection Regime
1st Edition
By Ainoa Cabada
January 23, 2026
This book investigates three key frameworks applicable to the protection of asylum seekers and refugees: the Charter of the United Nations, the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. Through rigorous analysis, it reveals how the current ...
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 29, 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 ...
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 ...