International Organizations

This book unravels the complexity and confusion surrounding global health governance. It provides a comprehensive look at conceptions of global health governance, old and new actors, the public and private, themes and approaches and emerging trends...

Lisk examines the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS and the role of the different global institutions (multilateral, public and private) involved, including their impact on outcomes...

This work fills a significant gap in the current literature by providing a concise introduction to religious institutions and an insightful analysis of their role in world affairs. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The new forms that religious institutions are taking, their fit with human rights and democrati..

This volume provides a clear description of and context for the global proliferation of think tanks, highlighting that these institutions are still relatively new players in global and national politics, and clearly outlining the factors contributing to the proliferation of think tanks, the present ..

McGann has undertaken a quantitative and qualitative study of SIA think tanks, looking at global and regional trends in their research. Tracking the evolution of security as understood by researchers and policymakers is vital as the world follows the path of the Four Mores: more issues, more actors,..

Governing Climate Change, Second Edition, provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities...

This edited volume investigates the feasibility of a modern day concert of powers as a way for managing the risk of great power conflicts in the 21st century, taking its inspiration from history. _x005F_x000D_..

The purpose of the book is to examine the conceptual evolution of “social development” during the post-colonial era, and see how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue...

The purpose of the book is to examine the conceptual evolution of “social development” during the post-colonial era, and see how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue...

_x005F_x000D_ This book seeks to examine the effects of strategic framing in U.S. and UN policy arenas to draw conclusions regarding whether and how the human rights and humanitarian norms embedded within such frames resonated with decision-makers and, in turn, how they shaped variation in levels of..

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 b..

This study demonstrates that the common assumption that democratic countries effectively limit human rights abuse is simply wrong, and that its widely accepted theory of what drives human rights violations accounts for only a small part of these abuses at best...