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 Politics of International Organizations: Views from insiders
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Weller, Xu Yi-chong
October 26, 2017
International organisations (IOs) often receive a bad press, seen as intrusive, domineering and unresponsive to the needs of the people and countries they are meant to serve. The best way to understand the operation of these international organisations is to bring together those who represent their...
The United Nations as a Knowledge System
1st Edition
By Nanette Svenson
October 26, 2017
This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated, warehoused, disseminated, structured, packaged, expanded, transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout the decades and, particularly, since the start of the 21st century with the introduction ...
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation: Politics, Problems, and Potential
1st Edition
By Turan Kayaoglu
October 13, 2017
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world’s leading international Islamic organization. Turan Kayaoglu provides the first accessible and concise introduction and overview of this important organization. This book details the OIC’s struggle to address popular ...
Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott Kennedy
September 19, 2017
This volume offers systematic analysis of China’s growing engagement in global governance institutions over the past three decades. During this period, China has gone from outsider to observer to insider. The volume is based on studies of Chinese involvement in a wide cross section of regimes, ...
Millennium Development Goals: Ideas, Interests and Influence
1st Edition
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
June 15, 2017
Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the ...
International Organizations and Military Affairs
1st Edition
By Hylke Dijkstra
April 27, 2017
From the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations to the NATO International Staff and the European External Action Service, international bureaucrats make decisions that affect life and death. In carrying out their functions, these officials not only facilitate the work of the member states, but ...
Sustainable Development Goals and UN Goal-Setting
1st Edition
By Stephen Browne
April 20, 2017
This book explores the record of the UN development system (UNDS) over more than 70 years as a fount of ideas and concepts in development; as a contributor to development thinking and strategy; and as the principal source of global development goals from the first UN Development Decade to the SDGs....
International Institutions of the Middle East: The GCC, Arab League, and Arab Maghreb Union
1st Edition
By James Worrall
March 17, 2017
This volume is a key text for understanding the major regional international organizations of the Middle East. Analysing the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Arab-Maghreb Union in a concise and accessible format, it explores their successes and failures across their full range of ...
Obstacles to Peacebuilding
1st Edition
By Graciana del Castillo
February 28, 2017
Combining the insights of a seasoned practitioner with the academic rigor of a meticulous policy and risk analyst, del Castillo discusses the major obstacles to peacebuilding that need to be removed before war-torn countries can move towards peace, stability, and prosperity. As Secretary-General ...
United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations: Corporate Conduct and the Public Interest
1st Edition
By Khalil Hamdani, Lorraine Ruffing
February 27, 2017
The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992. It was an early effort by the UN to address the overlapping issues of national sovereignty, corporate responsibility and global governance. These issues have since multiplied and deepened ...
Who Participates in Global Governance?: States, bureaucracies, and NGOs in the United Nations
1st Edition
By Molly Ruhlman
February 27, 2017
Why are non-state actors sometimes granted participation rights in international organizations? This book argues that IOs, and the states that compose them, systematically pursue their interests when granting participation rights to NSAs. This book demonstrates that NSAs have long been ...
UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era: Adapting to Stabilisation, Protection and New Threats
1st Edition
Edited
By Cedric de Coning, Chiyuki Aoi, John Karlsrud
February 16, 2017
This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The ...