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 Industrial Development Organization: Industrial Solutions for a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
By Stephen Browne
January 31, 2022
The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this important organization. As the only UN organization to ...
Contemporary Preventive Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Bertrand Ramcharan
December 13, 2021
This book offers an explanation and evaluation of preventative diplomacy in an age of increasing precariousness. It emphasises the importance of pursuing diplomacy and human security in connection with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which promote development grounded in peace, justice, and...
Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups: The Frontlines of Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Ashley Clements
December 13, 2021
Humanitarians operate on the frontlines of today’s armed conflicts, where they regularly negotiate to provide assistance and to protect vulnerable civilians. This book explores this unique and under-researched field of humanitarian negotiation. It details the challenges faced by humanitarians ...
Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds: Misperception and Contestation in EU-West Africa Relations
1st Edition
By Clara Weinhardt
December 13, 2021
This book shows how a constructivist account of bargaining sheds new light on the emergence of impasse situations in international trade negotiations. It uncovers the subtle ways in which misperceptions – and the problems of overcoming them – complicate negotiations. It brings to the forefront ...
Negotiations in the World Trade Organization: Design and Performance
1st Edition
By Michal Parizek
December 13, 2021
This book examines the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the context of the global economy in the twenty-first century, arguing that many problems within the institution lie in the disparity between its design and the nature of its tasks. Studying the global trade regime and the unsuccessful Doha ...
Small Countries, Big Diplomacy: Laos in the UN, ASEAN and MRC
1st Edition
By Alounkeo Kittikhoun, Anoulak Kittikhoun
October 18, 2021
This book shows how small countries use "big" diplomacy to advance national interests and global agendas – from issues of peace and security (the South China Sea and nuclearization in Korea) and human rights (decolonization) to development (landlocked and least developed countries) and environment ...
Global Trends and Transitions in Security Expertise: From Nuclear Deterrence to Climate Change and Back Again
1st Edition
By James McGann
September 30, 2021
The scope of Security and International Affairs research has expanded tremendously since the end of the Cold War to include topics beyond the realm of war studies or military statecraft. The field—once devoted solely to the study of conventional military and nuclear security issues—has ...
Towards a Global Consensus Against Corruption: International Agreements as Products of Diffusion and Signals of Commitment
1st Edition
By Mathis Lohaus
September 30, 2021
Corruption has long been identified as a governance challenge, yet it took states until the 1990s to adopt binding agreements combating it. While the rapid spread of anti-corruption treaties appears to mark a global consensus, a closer look reveals that not all regional and international ...
Human Rights and Justice: Philosophical, Economic, and Social Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Labonte, Kurt Mills
June 30, 2021
The relationship between human rights and justice is significant, deep, and ultimately contested. The two terms themselves – human rights and justice – have experienced both conceptual and operational pushback from many quarters in recent years. Although an understanding of justice is inherent in ...
Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms: From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation
1st Edition
Edited
By John Karlsrud, Yf Reykers
June 30, 2021
The track record of military rapid response mechanisms, troops on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations, remains disappointing. Yet, many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in ...
The IMF, the WTO & the Politics of Economic Surveillance
1st Edition
By Martin Edwards
June 30, 2021
Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) practice periodic surveillance of members to ensure that countries are adopting appropriate economic policies. Despite the importance of these procedures, they remain understudied by scholars. The global economic ...
The UN Military Staff Committee: Recreating a Missing Capacity
1st Edition
By Alexandra Novosseloff
June 30, 2021
The UN Military Staff Committee is a misunderstood organ, and never really worked as it was initially envisaged. This book charts its historic development as a means to explain the continuous debate about the reactivation of the Military Staff Committee and, more generally, the unsatisfied need for...