Book Series in Politics & International Relations
Global Institutions
New & Published Titles:
Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality
A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of…
read moreMay 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-78049-0 (Routledge)
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Multilateral Counter-Terrorism
The global politics of cooperation and contestation
Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response. In this book Peter Romaniuk aims to assess to what extent states seek multilateral responses…
read moreMarch 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77648-6 (Routledge)
Governing Climate Change
Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46769-8 (Routledge)
The UN Secretary-General and Secretariat
2nd Edition
The new edition of this accessible introduction to the important role of the United Nations Secretary-General continues to offer a keen insight into the United…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77841-1 (Routledge)
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Preventive Human Rights Strategies
The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly identifies…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54856-4 (Routledge)
African Economic Institutions
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…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77637-0 (Routledge)
Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Responding to an International Crisis
Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44497-2 (Routledge)
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Regional Security
The Capacity of International Organizations
Regional organizations are an inescapable feature of global politics. Virtually all countries in the world are members of at least one regional or other intergovernmental…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48341-4 (Routledge)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is one of the least written about and least understood of our major global institutions. This new…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37198-8 (Routledge)
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Transnational Organized Crime
With organized crime estimated to generate billions of dollars every year through illegal activities such as money laundering, smuggling of people and goods, extortion, robbery,…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46499-4 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Routledge is proud to announce a groundbreaking new series on Global Institutions edited by Thomas G Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson. The series provides readers with comprehensive, accessible, informative guides to the history, structure and activities of key international organizations. Each book is written by a recognized expert in the field, conforms to a similar structure and covers a range of themes and debates common to the entire series.
Forthcoming Titles:
Human Development
By Richard Ponzio
To be published June 1st 2011
Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives from the Global South
By Rama Mani, Thomas G. Weiss
To be published June 1st 2011
The Group of Twenty (G20)
By Andrew F. Cooper, Ramesh Thakur
To be published May 1st 2011
Idea of World Government
By James Yunker
To be published May 1st 2011
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
By Lawrence Saez
To be published April 30th 2011
Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission
By Robert Jenkins
To be published April 1st 2011
Humanitarianism Contested
By Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss
To be published March 1st 2011
International Law, International Relations and Global Governance
By Charlotte Ku
To be published March 1st 2011
Council of Europe
By Martyn Bond
To be published March 1st 2011
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association)
By Alan Tomlinson
To be published March 1st 2011
Global Health Governance
By Sophie Harman
To be published March 1st 2011
International Migration
By Khalid Koser
To be published March 1st 2011
The International Trade Centre
By Stephen Browne, Sam Laird
To be published March 1st 2011
The Bank for International Settlements: The Politics of Global Financial Supervision in the Age of High Finance
By Kevin V. Ozgercin
To be published February 1st 2011
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
By Stephen Browne
To be published February 1st 2011
Religious Institutions and Global Politics
By Katherine Marshall
To be published February 1st 2011
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
By Richard Jolly
To be published January 1st 2011
Non-Governmental Organisations in World Politics
By Peter Willetts
To be published January 1st 2011
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): For a People Centered Development Agenda?
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
To be published January 1st 2011
Human Security: Global Politics and the Human Costs of War
By Don Hubert
To be published January 1st 2011
Regional Development Banks: Lending with a Regional Flavor
By Jonathan Strand
To be published December 30th 2010
Organization of American States (OAS)
By Mônica Herz
To be published December 30th 2010
The Forum on China- Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)
By Ian Taylor
To be published December 30th 2010
UN Human Rights Council
By Bertrand Ramcharan
To be published December 30th 2010
Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance
By James McGann
To be published November 9th 2010
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Creating Norms for a Complex World
By J.P. Singh
To be published November 1st 2010
International Labour Organization (ILO): Coming in from the Cold
By Steve Hughes, Nigel Haworth
To be published October 11th 2010
Global Poverty: How Global Governance is Failing the Poor
By David Hulme
To be published August 24th 2010