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].
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Creating Norms for a Complex World
1st Edition
By J.P. Singh
January 18, 2011
This book traces the history of UNESCO from its foundational idealism to its current stature as the preeminent international organization for science, education, and culture, building a well rounded understanding of this important organization. The book: provides an overview of the organization ...
International Labour Organization (ILO): Coming in from the Cold
1st Edition
By Steve Hughes, Nigel Haworth
December 21, 2010
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is broadening its agenda and carving out a role as a key player in global economic policy-making, and this volume provides a succinct and comprehensive guide to this important organization. By charting the history and development of the ILO and ...
Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Rorden Wilkinson, Jennifer Clapp
June 21, 2010
A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the world’s poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound lending practices that caused a collapse in the US housing...
Multilateral Counter-Terrorism: The global politics of cooperation and contestation
1st Edition
By Peter Romaniuk
April 23, 2010
Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response. In this book Peter Romaniuk aims to assess to what extent states seek multilateral responses to the threats they face from terrorists. Providing a concise history and a clear discussion of current patterns of ...
Preventive Human Rights Strategies
1st Edition
By Bertrand Ramcharan
March 02, 2010
The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, ...
The UN Secretary-General and Secretariat
2nd Edition
By Leon Gordenker
March 02, 2010
The new edition of this accessible introduction to the important role of the United Nations Secretary-General continues to offer a keen insight into the United Nations – the Secretariat and its head, the Secretary-General, summing up the history, structure, strengths and weaknesses, and continuing ...
Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Responding to an International Crisis
1st Edition
By Franklyn Lisk
October 16, 2009
Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the different global institutions involved. The text highlights HIV/AIDS as an exceptional global epidemic in terms of the ...
Regional Security: The Capacity of International Organizations
1st Edition
By Rodrigo Tavares
August 14, 2009
Regional organizations are an inescapable feature of global politics. Virtually all countries in the world are members of at least one regional or other intergovernmental organization. The involvement of international organizations in the realm of regional peace and security, and their ...
Transnational Organized Crime
1st Edition
By Frank Madsen
June 10, 2009
With organized crime estimated to generate billions of dollars every year through illegal activities such as money laundering, smuggling of people and goods, extortion, robbery, fraud and insider trading, authorities are increasingly working together to combat this increasing threat to ...
The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era
2nd Edition
By Julie A Mertus, Julie Mertus
June 09, 2009
Julie Mertus’ highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system. Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights...
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus
1st Edition
By Craig N. Murphy, Joanne Yates
January 29, 2009
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system. Much of the interest in the successes and failures of global governance focuses around ...
Shaping the Humanitarian World
1st Edition
By Peter Walker, Daniel Maxwell
December 24, 2008
Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics, tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises and the systems that bind and divide them. ...