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].
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 ...
Summits & Regional Governance: The Americas in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Therien, Diana Tussie, Olivier Dabène
January 27, 2017
Despite the large number of regional and global summits there is very little known about the functioning and impact of this particular type of diplomatic practice. While recognizing that the growing importance of summits is a universal phenomenon, this volume takes advantage of the richness of the ...
The BRICS and Coexistence: An Alternative Vision of World Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Cedric de Coning, Thomas Mandrup, Liselotte Odgaard
December 02, 2016
The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment jargon referring to the largest and most attractive emerging economies. However, these countries identified with the BRIC concept, and started to meet annually as a group ...
Transformations in Trade Politics: Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa
1st Edition
By Silke Trommer
December 02, 2016
This book examines the evolution and application of participatory trade politics in West Africa and discusses the theoretical implications for political economy and global governance approaches to trade policy-making. The author traces the involvement of a network of West African global justice ...
India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA): The Rise of the Global South
1st Edition
By Oliver Stuenkel
November 08, 2016
The establishment of the IBSA as one of the principal platforms of South-South cooperation is one of the most notable developments in international politics during the first decade of the twenty-first century. While the concept is now frequently referred to in discussions about the Global South, ...
Making Global Institutions Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Brennan
October 10, 2016
This book seeks to think differently about what we recognize as "global institutions" and how they could work better for the people who need them most. By so doing, the contributions show that there is a group of institutions that influence enough people’s lives in significant enough ways through ...
Private Foundations and Development Partnerships: American Philanthropy and Global Development Agendas
1st Edition
By Michael Moran
October 10, 2016
This book explores the influence of private United States (US) philanthropic foundations in the governance of global problems. Through a close scrutiny of four high profile case studies of public-private collaboration, the work addresses the vacuum present in global governance scholarship regarding...
Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court: Committing to the Court
1st Edition
By Yvonne Dutton
October 10, 2016
In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court’s ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as: Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the institution with this uniquely strong ...
The Security Council as Global Legislator
1st Edition
Edited
By Vesselin Popovski, Trudy Fraser
October 10, 2016
Security Council resolutions have undergone an important evolution over the last two decades. While continuing its traditional role of determining state-specific threats to peace and engaging accordingly in various peaceful or coercive measures, the Security Council has also adopted resolutions ...
Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and East Timor
1st Edition
By Daisaku Higashi
October 06, 2016
Peacebuilding is a critical issue in world politics. Surprisingly, however, there has not been a full examination of concrete policies and implementation strategies to generate legitimacy in "host states" by either international relations (IR) theorists or practitioners. The objective of this book...
Displacement, Development, and Climate Change: International organizations moving beyond their mandates
1st Edition
By Nina Hall
April 15, 2016
This book focuses on one critical challenge: climate change. Climate change is predicted to lead to an increased intensity and frequency of natural disasters. An increase in extreme weather events, global temperatures and higher sea levels may lead to displacement and migration, and will affect ...