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Global Institutions


About the Series

Founded in 2003 by Professors Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson, and publishing its first volume in 2005, the Global Institutions book series is the benchmark series for works on the history, structure, and activities of international institutions and key issues and processes that permeate therein.

Covering topics of importance in contemporary and historical global governance, titles in the series cover the developments, membership, structure, decision-making procedures, key functions, problems, prospects, and possibilities confronting global institutions today and in the future.

Continuing the dedication of the founding series editors to high-quality, theoretical and empirical engagement with the full range of issues confronting global institutions, privileging knowledge from all perspectives, and publishing works in an accessible form for academic, policymaking, and lay audiences, we welcome new submissions to the series. To discuss proposals for research monographs, edited collections, short form books, and texts from a wide variety of intellectual orientations, theoretical persuasions, and methodological approaches please contact Rob Sorsby, Senior Editor for Politics and IR– [email protected].

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Non-Governmental Development Organizations and the Poverty Reduction Agenda The moral crusaders

Non-Governmental Development Organizations and the Poverty Reduction Agenda: The moral crusaders

1st Edition

By Jonathan Makuwira
December 02, 2013

The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world. This book offers a highly stimulating and concise summary of the...

The International Politics of Human Rights Rallying to the R2P Cause?

The International Politics of Human Rights: Rallying to the R2P Cause?

1st Edition

Edited By Monica Serrano, Thomas G. Weiss
December 20, 2013

The responsibility to protect (R2P) is at a crossroads, the latest in a journey that is only ten years old. This book present debates on the prevention of mass atrocities to R2P’s normative prospects. The book addresses key questions as a way to inform and drive on-going conversations about R2P. ...

Feminist Strategies in International Governance

Feminist Strategies in International Governance

1st Edition

Edited By Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl, Susanne Zwingel
December 11, 2013

The struggle for women’s rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporary forms of this struggle. It brings together the ...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT): Cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community

1st Edition

By Susan V. Scott, Markos Zachariadis
December 04, 2013

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This ...

Corporate Social Responsibility The Role of Business in Sustainable Development

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Business in Sustainable Development

1st Edition

By Oliver F. Williams
November 20, 2013

Over the last 30 years, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a household term, reflecting a combination of factors that we have come to associate with that most catch-all of terms "globalization," including the widespread popular concern with such social issues as the environment and ...

Integrating Africa Decolonization's Legacies, Sovereignty and the African Union

Integrating Africa: Decolonization's Legacies, Sovereignty and the African Union

1st Edition

By Martin Welz
October 10, 2013

The African Union (AU) is a continental organization that comprises every African state except for Morocco, is indeed a pioneering undertaking. Its ambitious aim is to integrate all member states, with the ultimate goal of forming the United States of Africa. Despite several attempts to build a ...

Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance

Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance

1st Edition

By Rodney Bruce Hall
September 25, 2013

NGOs have proliferated in number and become increasingly influential players in world politics in the past three decades. From the 1970s, with the access of social movements and private NGOs to local and international institutions, NGOs have enjoyed an opening to bring impact global policy debates....

The Council of Europe Structure, History and Issues in European Politics

The Council of Europe: Structure, History and Issues in European Politics

1st Edition

By Martyn Bond
September 20, 2013

The book provides a succinct and much needed introduction to the Council of Europe from its foundation through the early conventions on human rights and culture to its expansion into the fields of social affairs, environment and education. Founded in 1949 within a month of NATO, the Council of ...

Global Institutions of Religion Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers

Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers

1st Edition

By Katherine Marshall
April 04, 2013

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. Focusing on formal institutions specifically dedicated to governing religious communities, the work examines the ...

The Security Governance of Regional Organizations

The Security Governance of Regional Organizations

1st Edition

Edited By Emil J. Kirchner, Roberto Dominguez
November 29, 2011

The Security Governance of Regional Organizations assesses the effectiveness of regional organizations as regional or global security providers, and examines how policy preferences, resources, capabilities, institutional mechanisms and economic and political cohesion link with collective action ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection

2nd Edition

By Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher, James Milner
January 12, 2012

This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes: up to date ...

The UN Secretary-General and Secretariat

The UN Secretary-General and Secretariat

2nd Edition

By Leon Gordenker
March 02, 2010

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 Nations – the Secretariat and its head, the Secretary-General, summing up the history, structure, strengths and weaknesses, and continuing ...

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