Global Governance Books

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41. Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance

    Edited by Michael J. Struett, Jon D. Carlson, Mark T. Nance

    Series: New International Relations

    Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system. Much attention has focused on Somalia, but piracy is a problem worldwide. Recent coordination efforts among states in South East Asia appear to have helped in the...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
42. Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas

    A Study of Co-Management and Adaptive Co-Management

    By Natalie Bown, Tim S. Gray, Selina M. Stead

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

    In this book, the authors examine the governance of marine protected areas (MPA), and in particular they compare two different forms of governance – co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM). CM is characterized by the decentralization of the decision-making process, incorporating the...

    Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
43. Millennium Development Goals

    Looking Beyond 2015

    Edited by Matthew Clarke, Simon Feeny

    In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty. This framework, known as the Millennium Development Goals, was time-bound with an end date of 2015. With this end now in sight, the international community is focusing on the achievement of these goals....

    Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
44. Elements of Genocide

    Edited by Paul Behrens, Ralph Henham

    Elements of Genocide provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports. Genocide constitutes one of the most...

    Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
45. Making Sense, Making Worlds

    Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations

    By Nicholas Onuf

    Series: New International Relations

    Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of...

    Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
46. Peacebuilding and NGOs

    State-Civil Society Interactions

    By Ryerson Christie

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    Analysing the relationship between civil society and the state, this book lays bare the assumptions informing peacebuilding practices and demonstrates through empirical research how such practices have led to new dynamics of conflict. The drive to establish a sustainable liberal peace largely...

    Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
47. Integrating Africa

    Decolonization's Legacies, Sovereignty and the African Union

    By Martin Welz

    Series: Global Institutions

    The African Union (AU) is a continental organization that comprises every African state except for Morocco, is indeed a pioneering undertaking. Its ambitious aim is to integrate all member states, with the ultimate goal of forming the United States of Africa. Despite several attempts to build a...

    Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
48. Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law

    Edited by William A. Schabas, Nadia Bernaz

    International criminal law has developed extraordinarily quickly over the last decade, with the creation of ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court. This book provides a timely and comprehensive survey of emerging and...

    Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
49. Leadership and Policy Innovation – From Clinton to Bush

    Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

    By Joseph R. Cerami

    Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

    Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international community have accelerated. Given the attention...

    Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
50. International Law, Politics and Inhumane Weapons

    The Effectiveness of Global Landmine Regimes

    By Alan Bryden

    Series: Law, Conflict and International Relations

    This book contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhumane weapons, such as landmines. Two treaties have emerged under IHL in response to the humanitarian scourge of landmines. However, despite a considerable body...

    Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge