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].
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...
UNHCR as a Surrogate State: Protracted Refugee Situations
1st Edition
By Sarah Deardorff Miller
June 30, 2021
International organizations (IOs) that focus on refugees are finding themselves spread increasingly thin. As the scale of displacement reaches historic levels—protracted refugee situations now average 26 years—organizations are staying for years on end, often working well beyond their original ...
UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees
1st Edition
By Nicholas R. Micinski
April 29, 2021
UN Global Compacts is a concise introduction to the key concepts, issues, and actors in global migration governance and presents a comprehensive analysis of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Global Compact on Refugees, and the Global Compact for Migration. The book places the...
A League of Democracies: Cosmopolitanism, Consolidation Arguments, and Global Public Goods
1st Edition
By John J. Davenport
March 31, 2021
In the 21st century, as the peoples of the world grow more closely tied together, the question of real transnational government will finally have to be faced.The end of the Cold War has not brought the peace, freedom from atrocities, and decline of tyranny for which we hoped. It is also clearer now...
Sovereign Rules and the Politics of International Economic Law
1st Edition
By Marc Froese
March 31, 2021
How ought scholars and students to approach the rapidly expanding and highly multidisciplinary study of international economic law? Academics in the field of international political economy used to take for granted that they worked with the overarching concepts of rules and governance, while legal ...
Mass Atrocities, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Human Rights: ‘If Not Now, When?’
1st Edition
By Simon Adams
January 27, 2021
This book ambitiously weaves together history and politics to explain all of the major situations where mass atrocities have occurred, or been prevented, over the 15 years since the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) was adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit. The author provides a history of ...
British Media and the Rwandan Genocide
1st Edition
By John Nathaniel Clarke
December 18, 2020
Throughout the 1990s, humanitarian interventionism sat at a crossroads, where ideas about rights and duties within and beyond borders collided with an international reality of civil conflict where the most basic human rights were violated in the most brutal manner. This growing awareness of ...
International Secretariats: Two Centuries of International Civil Servants and Secretariats
1st Edition
By Bob Reinalda
October 28, 2020
Providing a comprehensive overview of two centuries of international civil servants and international secretariats, this book reveals how international secretariats have emerged and evolved, focusing on both structures (international public administrations) and the practitioners (international ...
Human Rights and Conflict Resolution: Bridging the Theoretical and Practical Divide
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Fuentes Julio, Paula Drumond
August 14, 2020
Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace. Although human rights norms have been incorporated and institutionalized by various...
Brazil as a Rising Power: Intervention Norms and the Contestation of Global Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Kai Michael Kenkel, Philip Cunliffe
June 30, 2020
This book examines the normative tensions inherent in upward mobility within the international system, focusing particularly on the clash between sovereign self-interest and the putatively universal norms associated with international interventions. It provides extensive detail and deep analysis of...
The League of Nations: Enduring Legacies of the First Experiment at World Organization
1st Edition
By M. Cottrell
June 30, 2020
The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history. Over time, it’s come to symbolize both a path to peace and to war, a promising vision of world order and a utopian illusion, an artifact of a bygone era and a beacon for one that may still come. As the first ...