Böcker i Global Institutions-serien

This edited volume takes stock of the overall impact of the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture during its first decade in existence.

Despite the large volume of regional and international summits there is very little known about the functioning and impact of modern-day summitry, not only in the Americas but also in other regions of the world. The contributors to this volume offers a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of contemporary regional summitry.

This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated, warehoused, disseminated, structured, packaged, expanded, transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout the decades and, particularly, since the start of the 21st century with the introduction of more connective information and communications technology. It examines the overarching objectives that have guided such activity and divides UN knowledge management into three distinct, but often overlapping and intertwining, categories: knowledge for social and organizational learning; knowledge for norm setting; and knowledge for creation of products and services. Svenson brings together these multiple aspects of UN knowledge management　to present a holistic view of how the organization utilizes its global intelligence to educate, advocate and serve member countries'' development. Instead of looking at the UN as an international bureaucracy or as a peacekeeping, policymaking, humanitarian or development entity, this work studies the UN as a generator and purveyor of information, learning and experience in all of these areas. This book will be key reading for all students and scholars of international organizations.

This comprehensive new work offers a systematic analysis of growing Chinese engagement in global governance institutions during the past three decades.

This volume provides a clear, comprehensive introduction to realism for use in making sense of global governance. While realism is arguably the best known mainstream perspective in international relations theory, the literature on international organization (IO) and global governance (GG) conveys the impression that realism has little to contribute to the topic. In fact, however realism offers a nuanced, comprehensive and compelling perspective on IO and GG. This volume provides a clear and concise introduction to this realist understanding of contemporary order, organization, and management in world affairs. The book:Introduces students to the core tenets of realism, and particularly its focus on nation-states as central for understanding the dynamics of IO and GG. Explores the key current debates, including the role that competition and balance of power plays in encouraging cooperation and institution-building. Considers the key criticisms of realism focusing on the issues of governance, liberalism, and ethics and exploring an emerging realist focus on inter-state socialization. Folker highlights the benefits of a realist perspective when examining a variety of actors and processes in contemporary world order, including democracies, economic interdependence, international and non-governmental organizations, international law, citizenship and national identity. Analyses emerging directions in realist theory as they relate to the topics of global organization and governanceProviding concrete illustrations throughout the volume, contemporary issues, such as financial and ecological crises, terrorism, peacekeeping, and the plight of refugees, are used as concrete, illustrative examples of realism's utility for explaining global governance phenomena.This work will be essential reading for all students of international organization and global governance.

This edited volume offers a first thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and attempts to align the two to help inform practice.

This edited volume offers a first thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and attempts to align the two to help inform practice.

Evidence-based policy-making has imposed itself as the best way to evaluate the risks and consequences of political action in global arenas. In the absence of alternative, democratic modes of legitimation, international organizations have adopted this approach to policy-making. Scholars of public policy, public administration and EU politics have pointed to the manifold ways in which expert knowledge can be mobilized in policy-making processes. This book makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the way global policy agendas are shaped and propagated. It will be of great interest to scholars, policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of public policy, IR and global governance.

Accessing human rights and justice mechanisms is a pressing issue in global politics. Although an understanding of justice is inherent in broad human rights discourses, there is no clear consensus on how to develop adequate means of accessing them in order to make a difference to people's lives.

Although an understanding of justice is inherent in broad human rights discourses, there is no clear consensus on how to integrate and reconcile these concepts. This volume examines a range of philosophical, economic, and social perspectives that are key to understanding the nature of the linkages between human rights and justice.

Orchard argues that while an international IDP protection regime exists, many aspects of it are informal, with IDP issues bound up in a humanitarian regime complex that divides the mandates of key organizations and even the question of IDP status itself.

This edited volume provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of UN peacekeeping and the use of force, to inform a better understanding of the complex and interconnected issues at stake for the UN community.

This book explores tensions in global trade by examining the role of experts in generating, disseminating and legitimating knowledge about the possibilities of trade to work for global development.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world¿s leading international Islamic organization. Turan Kayaoglu provides the first accessible and concise introduction and overview of this important organization.

This book seeks to develop an alternative approach to the analysis of IOs that takes account of all those involved, whether state representatives, IO leaders and members of the secretariat.

This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated, warehoused, disseminated, structured, packaged, expanded, transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout the decades and, particularly, since the start of the 21st century.

How has contemporary humanitarianism become the dominant framework for how states construct their moral obligations to non-citizens? This book examines the history of humanitarianism in international relations by tracing the relationship between transnational moral obligation and sovereignty from the 16th century to the present.

This volume argues that the extensive development of international economic law makes it impossible to discuss international political economy and international law as if they were mutually exclusive processes, or even as if they were separate and mutually reinforcing.

This book is the first comprehensive and comparative contribution to explore and identify the key factors that hamper and enable the development and deployment of multinational rapid response mechanisms.

"Private foundations and development partnerships, American philanthropy and global development agendas"--