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 Council of Europe: Structure, History and Issues in European Politics
1st Edition
By Martyn Bond
September 20, 2013
The book provides a succinct and much needed introduction to the Council of Europe from its foundation through the early conventions on human rights and culture to its expansion into the fields of social affairs, environment and education. Founded in 1949 within a month of NATO, the Council of ...
Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers
1st Edition
By Katherine Marshall
April 04, 2013
This work fills a significant gap in the current literature by providing a concise introduction to religious institutions and an insightful analysis of their role in world affairs. Focusing on formal institutions specifically dedicated to governing religious communities, the work examines the ...
The Group of Twenty (G20)
1st Edition
By Andrew F. Cooper, Ramesh Thakur
February 07, 2013
This work offers a concise examination of the purpose, function and practice of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit. Providing a comprehensive historical account of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors process, the text then moves on to outline the conditions, events and debates that ...
Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission
1st Edition
By Robert Jenkins
January 29, 2013
The emergence of The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2005 was the culmination of a long and contentious process. In this work Rob Jenkins provides a concise introduction that traces the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a concept, the creation and functioning of the PBC as ...
Crisis of Global Sustainability
1st Edition
By Tapio Kanninen
December 14, 2012
This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development, proposing new organizational solutions to deal with the crisis of sustainability. Crisis of Global ...
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen
December 10, 2012
Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants’ desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour ...
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC): An emerging collaboration architecture
1st Edition
By Lawrence Saez
November 28, 2012
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an international organization comprised of the eight countries in South Asia. This work aims examine the institutional structure, objectives and effectiveness of the SAARC in its role as South Asia’s leading regional institution. ...
Trade, Poverty, Development: Getting Beyond the WTO's Doha Deadlock
1st Edition
Edited
By Rorden Wilkinson, James Scott
October 09, 2012
This work seeks to look beyond the seemingly endless deadlock in the WTO’s Doha round of trade negotiations that began in November 2001 and were first scheduled to conclude by January 1, 2005. As well as offering an incisive analysis of the ills of the round, with particular attention directed at ...
The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond: Global Development after 2015
1st Edition
Edited
By Rorden Wilkinson, David Hulme
September 12, 2012
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous days of the twenty-first century, almost ...
International Organizations as Self-Directed Actors: A Framework for Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Joel Oestreich
May 17, 2012
This exciting new text illustrates and advances the argument that International Organizations (IOs) need to be taken seriously as actors in world affairs. Bringing together an international line-up of distinguished contributors, the text examines recent theories that suggest how IOs are able to ...
Maritime Piracy
1st Edition
By Robert Haywood, Roberta Spivak
April 19, 2012
Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry’s rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, ...
The Forum on China- Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)
1st Edition
By Ian Taylor
April 11, 2012
The increase in China’s economic and political involvement in Africa is arguably the most momentous development on the continent since the end of the Cold War. This book seeks to detail the origins, structure, workings and activities of The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and its ...