International Organizations Books

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11. A Global Security Triangle

    European, African and Asian interaction

    Edited by Valeria Bello, Belachew Gebrewold

    Series: Routledge/GARNET series

    This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations. The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union into new...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
12. Peacebuilding and International Administration

    The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

    By Niels van Willigen

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
13. Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding

    Edited by David Chandler, Timothy D. Sisk

    This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
14. The United Nations Human Rights Council

    A critique and early assessment

    By Rosa Freedman

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
15. Routledge History of International Organizations

    From 1815 to the Present Day

    By Bob Reinalda

    This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 up to the present day, and provides the reader with nearly two centuries of world history seen from the perspective of international organizations. It covers the...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
16. International Law and Civil Wars

    Intervention and Consent

    By Eliav Lieblich

    Series: Law, Conflict and International Relations

    This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention. In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force against another – the main exceptions being...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
17. Transnational Power Elites

    The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security

    Edited by Niilo Kauppi, Mikael Rask Madsen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security

    This book argues that European Union institutional mechanics and the EU as a political unit cannot be properly understood without taking into account the elites that make the policy decisions. Spurred by globalisation, technological and economic development has provided the backbone for social and...

    Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
18. Towards International Government (Routledge Revivals)

    By J.A. Hobson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place....

    Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
19. Oil and World Power (Routledge Revivals)

    By Peter Odell

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The oil industry is the world’s largest commercial enterprise. Its extent is global; international issues are consistently influenced by considerations of oil production and consumption, while the international communications networks of the larger oil companies rival those of many nations. In this...

    Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
20. Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

    Edited by Roger Mac Ginty

    This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term ‘peacebuilding’ has had remarkable staying power. Other terms,...

    Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge