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 IRโ [email protected].
UN Peacebuilding Architecture: The First 10 Years
1st Edition
Edited
By Cedric de Coning, Eli Stamnes
April 08, 2016
Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edited volume takes stock of the overall impact of the PBA during its first decade in existence, and generates innovative recommendations for how the ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross: A Neutral Humanitarian Actor
2nd Edition
By David P. Forsythe, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
March 11, 2016
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a complex position in international relations, being the guardian of international humanitarian law but often acting discretely to advance human dignity. Treated by most governments as if it were an inter-governmental organization, the ICRC is...
Human Development and Global Institutions: Evolution, Impact, Reform
1st Edition
By Richard Ponzio, Arunabha Ghosh
March 07, 2016
This book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the foundational ideas associated with the human development school of thought. It examines its conceptual evolution during the post-colonial era, and discusses how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue,...
World Trade Organization (WTO): Law, Economics, and Politics
2nd Edition
By Bernard M. Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis
October 16, 2015
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most important international organizations in existence today. It contains a set of disciplines that affect the ability of governments to impose trade restrictions, and has helped to support the steady expansion of international trade since the 1950s...
Global Consumer Organizations
1st Edition
By Karsten Ronit
September 23, 2015
As corporate activity continues to expand in line with the continued globalization of the economy there is an increasing demand for establishing rules to regulate the trans-boundary activities of firms and their many and complex relations with consumers. Until now, sources of knowledge in this ...
The African Union: Addressing the challenges of peace, security, and governance
2nd Edition
By Samuel M. Makinda, F. Wafula Okumu, David Mickler
June 30, 2015
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The African Union continues to offer the most comprehensive overview of the work of the African Union (AU), with special emphasis on its capacity to meet the challenges of building and sustaining governance institutions and security mechanisms. This ...
Women and Girls Rising: Progress and resistance around the world
1st Edition
Edited
By Ellen Chesler, Terry McGovern
June 30, 2015
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that improvements in the status of women and girls โ however worthy and important in their own right โ also drive the prosperity, stability, and security of families, communities, and nations. Yet despite many indicators of progress, women and girls ...
Contemporary Human Rights Ideas: Rethinking theory and practice
2nd Edition
By Bertrand Ramcharan
June 16, 2015
Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003โ4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under ...
European Union and Environmental Governance
1st Edition
By Henrik Selin, Stacy D. VanDeveer
May 12, 2015
Over the past five decades, the European Union (EU) has developed into the most legally and politically authoritative regional organization in the world, wielding significant influence across a wide range of issue areas. European Union and Environmental Governance focuses on the growing global role...
The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By William E. DeMars, Dennis Dijkzeul
April 20, 2015
It has become commonplace to observe the growing pervasiveness and impact of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). And yet the three central approaches in International Relations (IR) theory, Liberalism, Realism and Constructivism, overlook or ignore the importance of NGOs, both theoretically and ...
Global Corporations in Global Governance
1st Edition
By Christopher May
March 25, 2015
This book offers a concise and accessible overview and analysis of the place of large multinational and regional corporations in the political economy of global governance.May argues that not only do corporations have an impact on the institutions of global governance, but they must ...
International Judicial Institutions: The architecture of international justice at home and abroad
2nd Edition
By Richard J. Goldstone, Adam Smith
March 25, 2015
This fully-updated and much expanded second edition provides a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law. Written by a former UN Chief Prosecutor and a leading international law expert, this book analyses the legal and political ...