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 Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Nadin
June 30, 2020
This edited volume provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of UN peacekeeping and the use of force, to inform a better understanding of the complex and interconnected issues at stake for the UN community. Peacekeeping is traditionally viewed as a largely passive military activity, governed by...
Regionalism Under Stress: Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Detlef Nolte, Brigitte Weiffen
July 02, 2020
Regionalism is under stress. The European Union has been challenged by the Eurozone crisis, refugee flows, terrorist attacks, Euroscepticism, and Brexit. In Latin America, regional cooperation has been stagnating. Studying Europe and Latin America within a broader comparative perspective, this ...
Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance
2nd Edition
By James G. McGann, Laura C. Whelan
March 03, 2020
This completely revised edition of Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance provides a clear description of, and context for, the global proliferation of think tanks. It explores the origins, development, and diversity of think tanks and policy networks, discusses past and current issues ...
The International Organization for Migration: Challenges, Commitments, Complexities
1st Edition
By Megan Bradley
February 07, 2020
Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically focused outfit into a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activities related to human mobility. In 2016, IOM joined ...
Understanding the Humanitarian World
1st Edition
By Daniel Maxwell, Kirsten Gelsdorf
May 17, 2019
Conflict and disaster have been part of human history for as long as it has been recorded. Over time, more mechanisms for responding to crises have developed and become more systematized. Today a large and complex ‘global humanitarian response system’ made up of a multitude of local, national and ...
Inside the United Nations: Multilateral Diplomacy Up Close
1st Edition
By Gert Rosenthal
January 11, 2019
Inside the United Nations illustrates some of the parameters surrounding consensus-building at the United Nations, seeking to provide new insights beyond what is already known. The author spent twelve years as P.R of Guatemala at the UN, offering him privileged observatories in all three of the ...
The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations: How International Bureaucracies Produce and Mobilize Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Annabelle Littoz-Monnet
December 03, 2018
This edited volume advances existing research on the production and use of expert knowledge by international bureaucracies. Given the complexity, technicality and apparent apolitical character of the issues dealt with in global governance arenas, ‘evidence-based’ policy-making has imposed itself as...
Global Business Associations
1st Edition
By Karsten Ronit
October 15, 2018
Global business tends to be perceived as a number of individual but powerful multinational corporations, capable of controlling markets and influencing political decisions; in fact, global business is highly organized through a plethora of associations that bring together competing companies and ...
Global Governance and Transnationalizing Capitalist Hegemony: The Myth of the 'Emerging Powers'
1st Edition
By Ian Taylor
August 14, 2018
This book is a critique of claims regarding how emerging economies are supposedly rewriting the rules of global governance and ushering in alternative models to neoliberal orthodoxy. It argues that such assumptions are abstractions that ignore both the transnationalizing nature of the global ...
Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: Law and Practice in the Field
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Bruch
January 12, 2018
Human rights, peacekeeping, and humanitarian intervention have emerged in the past decades as important components of international law and practice. Adopting a methodology of Institutional Ethnography informed by Actor-Network Theory, this book traces the practices of law and expertise from global...
NGOs and Global Trade: Non-state voices in EU trade policymaking
1st Edition
By Erin Hannah
January 12, 2018
In a deeply iniquitous world, where the gains from trade are distributed unevenly and where trade rules often militate against progressive social values, human health, and sustainable development, NGOs are widely touted as our best hope for redressing these conditions. As a critical voice of the ...
The Arctic Council: Governance within the Far North
1st Edition
By Douglas Nord
January 12, 2018
This book helps us to think carefully about how this area of the world should be best handled in the future by offering a concise and accessible introduction to the Arctic Council. Over the past two decades, the Arctic has evolved from being a remote region in international affairs to becoming an ...