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41. Global Governance and NGO Participation

    Shaping the information society in the United Nations

    By Charlotte Dany

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    This book explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiations Through an empirically rich study of the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) this book conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
42. Political Economy of Statebuilding

    Power after Peace

    Edited by Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
43. 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
44. The WTO and the Environment

    Development of competence beyond trade

    By James Watson

    Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

    This book is a review of the development of the WTO dispute resolution procedure and the power and influence it has gained over the practises of the member countries as well as in other international treaties. The book addresses the development of environmental competency in the WTO and examines...

    Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
45. The Performance of the EU in International Institutions

    Edited by Sebastian Oberthür, Knud Erik Jørgensen, Jamal Shahin

    The Performance of the EU in International Institutions marks one of the first attempts to systematically analyse the subject. It focuses on the role of the EU in decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. The book unpacks the concept of EU...

    Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
46. The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization

    Invited Influence

    By Norton Wheeler

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    In the waning years of the Cold War, the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural, educational, and policy exchanges, which in turn strengthened new security and economic ties. These links have helped shape the most important bilateral relationship in the late-twentieth and...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
47. 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
48. Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security

    Bridging the Gap

    By Lionel Ponsard

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture. Lionel Ponsard clearly demonstrates how cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
49. National and European Foreign Policies

    Towards Europeanization

    Edited by Reuben Wong, Christopher Hill

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    National and European Foreign Policy explores the processes of interaction between the national and the European levels in foreign policy making in European Union states. The volume also assesses the mutual influence which the Member States exert on each other, independent of the EU institutions,...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
50. Mainstreaming Human Security in Peace Operations and Crisis Management

    Policies, Problems, Potential

    Edited by Wolfgang Benedek, Matthias C. Kettemann, Markus Möstl

    The concept of human security is a new approach to security that focuses on the individual human being and provides policy alternatives to the traditional state-centred view, which considers the state to be the only and ultimate referent of security. Formally introduced into the United Nations...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge