International institutions (374)

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the America...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Americans and Europeans perceive threat differently. Americans remain more religious than Europeans and generally still believe their nation is providentially blessed. American security culture is relatively stable and includes the deeply held belief...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Tim Balint zeigt auf der Grundlage von vier Fallstudien, dass sich die Personalpolitik in internationalen Organisationen erst sehr spät und eher zögerlich in Richtung New Public Management verändert hat. Zur Erklärung werden kausale Mechanismen herau...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict. The expansion of knowledge across disciplines and the increasingly blurred boundaries in th...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the Afri...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is the first to exclusively consider the foreign policy tendencies of African states in international institutions. As an edited volume offering empirically based perspectives from a variety of scholars, this project disabuses the notion th...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book seeks to demystify the persistence of the Anglo-American Special Relationship (AASR) in the post-Cold War era by constructing a new theory of alliance persistence. This theory of alliance persistence not only has stronger explanatory power ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This book brings together twelve scholars six Americans and six Chinese to explore the ways America and China think about international order. The book shows how each country's traditions, historical experiences, and ideologies influence current glob...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:This book is not just an update to studies of Middle Eastern policy and diplomacy, but an in-depth analysis that covers the United States' foreign and strategic policy from the days of President Roosevelt to President Obama and Pakistan's sec...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, arguing that the agreement's critics and proponents inscribe themselves into different Russian narrativ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Drawing on the fields of political economy and historical sociology, Jones dispels the overwhelming consensus among scholars that members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) never interfere in the internal affairs of other states, a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This is the first book that explicitly outlines Asian contributions to the elaboration of universal human rights values that were proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Evidence of Asia’s contribution from the historical rec...