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].
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 ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2nd Edition
By Richard Woodward
September 25, 2023
Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2021, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is routinely heralded as one of the leading organs of global governance, yet it remains one of the least written about and least well understood of our major global institutions. This fully ...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: The Enduring Alliance
3rd Edition
By Julian Lindley-French
May 17, 2023
This book is the concise story of NATO. It considers the origins, development, challenges, structure, and direction of the Alliance against the backdrop of a changing world and a changing Europe, the changing relationship of the United States to its Allies, the twin threats posed by both Russia and...
Governing Climate Change
3rd Edition
By Harriet Bulkeley, Peter Newell
May 05, 2023
This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities. The issue of global climate change ...
Diaspora Organizations in International Affairs
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis Dijkzeul, Margit Fauser
February 10, 2023
Analyzing the role and impact of Diaspora Organizations (DOs) in International Relations (IR), this interdisciplinary volume provides empirical accounts of their work across Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. Over the last three decades, DOs have increased in number, spread to new ...
Trade Interests and UN Funding: Commercial Earmarking of Multi-bi Aid
1st Edition
By Paweł Gmyrek
January 09, 2023
This book examines a particular type of donor behavior – known as country earmarking of contributions – which occurs within the voluntary financing system of the United Nations. The research demonstrates that already during the period of the Millennium Development Goals a large share of the ...
Why International Organizations Hate Politics: Depoliticizing the World
1st Edition
By Marieke Louis, Lucile Maertens
January 09, 2023
Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. ...
A Development Economist in the United Nations: Reasons for Hope
1st Edition
By Richard Jolly
November 22, 2022
This book explores the joys and occasional frustrations of a development economist working for the United Nations. From 1982 to 2000 Richard Jolly worked in senior positions in UNICEF and UNDP on assignments that were innovative, for the UN, the countries concerned and for development. The book ...
Accessing and Implementing Human Rights and Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Kurt Mills, Melissa Labonte
June 14, 2022
Accessing human rights and justice mechanisms is a pressing issue in global politics. Although an understanding of justice is inherent in broad human rights discourses, there is no clear consensus on how to develop adequate means of accessing them in order to make a difference to people’s lives. ...
Protecting the Internally Displaced: Rhetoric and Reality
1st Edition
By Phil Orchard
June 14, 2022
Today, there are over 40 million conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, almost double the number of refugees. Yet, IDPs are protected only by the soft-law Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement at the global level. Instead of a dedicated international organization, IDPs...