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].
International Law, International Relations and Global Governance
1st Edition
By Charlotte Ku
April 03, 2012
International Relations and International Law have developed in parallel but distinctly throughout the 20th Century. However in recent years there has been recognition that their shared concerns in areas as diverse as the environment, transnational crime and terrorism, human rights and conflict ...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection
2nd Edition
By Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher, James Milner
January 12, 2012
This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes: up to date ...
The Security Governance of Regional Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Emil J. Kirchner, Roberto Dominguez
November 29, 2011
The Security Governance of Regional Organizations assesses the effectiveness of regional organizations as regional or global security providers, and examines how policy preferences, resources, capabilities, institutional mechanisms and economic and political cohesion link with collective action ...
The UN Human Rights Council
1st Edition
By Bertrand Ramcharan
November 07, 2011
The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the Commission on Human Rights was replaced by the Human Rights ...
Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Rama Mani, Thomas G. Weiss
November 04, 2011
This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade. This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding ...
African Economic Institutions
1st Edition
By Kwame Akonor
September 14, 2011
This book analyzes how, and under what conditions, African International Economic Organizations (IEO) have evolved, and what individual and collective contributions, if any, these African IEOs have had on Africa’s socio-economic development. Providing a comprehensive and accessible overview, the ...
United Nations Development Programme and System (UNDP)
1st Edition
By Stephen Browne
August 29, 2011
This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The book: traces the origins and evolution of UNDP, outlining how a ...
The Organization of American States (OAS): Global Governance Away From the Media
1st Edition
By Mônica Herz
May 25, 2011
The Organization of American States (OAS) is the world’s oldest regional multifunctional organization. This work provides a clear and comprehensive discussion of this important body, dealing with security, technical cooperation, and the construction of democratic institutions. Providing an ...
The International Trade Centre: Export Impact for Good
1st Edition
By Stephen Browne, Sam Laird
May 02, 2011
In the era of rapid globalization, the ITC plays a significant and wide ranging role working with both governments and trade support institutions to nurture an export culture, this work will provide a much needed overview of this dynamic organization. This book: Details the history of the ...
Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread
1st Edition
By Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss
April 05, 2011
This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case ...
The Idea of World Government: From ancient times to the twenty-first century
1st Edition
By James A. Yunker
March 21, 2011
The notion of a single political organization encompassing the whole of humanity—a world state—has intrigued mankind since earliest recorded history. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the history of world government, and questions whether political globalization, in the ...
Non-Governmental Organizations in World Politics: The Construction of Global Governance
1st Edition
By Peter Willetts
February 02, 2011
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Amnesty International and Oxfam to Greenpeace and Save the Children are now key players in global politics. This accessible and informative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the significant role and increasing participation of NGOs in world ...