Global Governance without the involvement of non-state actors is unthinkable. But the growing presence of a diverse group of non-state actors also makes the global governance process more complex. Understanding non-state actors’ role in global governance and their impact on global issues requires empirical research and impactful analysis from a range of institutions, disciplines and fields of study.
This series seeks to facilitate both non-state actor research as well as global governance research by providing a publication outlet that links both discourses. Observing a broad definition of non-state actors, including international organizations, and a wide range of global governance issues, it recognizes that non-state actor and global governance research revolves around a multiplex of actors, interests, norms, mechanisms and governance levels.
By Jan Lüdert
May 27, 2024
This book explores the role and relevance of non-state actors (NSAs) in the international system by analyzing the ways these actors gain influence in the United Nations (UN). Offering a systematic, theoretical, and empirical account of how NSAs contest and potentially change state sovereignty ...
By Ilona Klímová-Alexander
February 27, 2017
Ilona KlÃmová-Alexander brings Europe's largest transnational and most marginalized ethnic minority, the Roma (Gypsies), into the discourse of international relations. The book describes and analyzes the attempts of the Romani activists to gain voice in world politics by interacting with the ...
By Liesbet Heyse
January 28, 2007
How do non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities? Humanitarian aid organizations regularly face difficult decisions about life and death in a context of serious time constraints which force them daily to select whom to help and whom not ...
By Claudia Kissling
May 20, 2008
Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has brought new actors to the political arena. One of those which has attracted considerable attention in academic research is civil society or NGOs. Claudia Kissling addresses the topic of civil society participation in the nuclear non-proliferation ...
By Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Anna van der Vleuten
December 28, 2007
Combining normative analysis and theory-driven empirical research in a comparative framework, this volume clarifies and explains the connections between regional international governance, legitimacy and democracy. It focuses on the quality of democracy and the legitimacy of policy making in ...
By Mathijs van Leeuwen
November 28, 2009
How do international organizations support local peacebuilding? Do they really understand conflict? Partners in Peace challenges the global perceptions and assumptions of the roles played by civil society in peacebuilding and offers a radically new perspective on how international organizations can...
By Lisbeth Segerlund
June 28, 2010
In recent decades, claims have increasingly been made on transnational corporations to take responsibility for the promotion and protection of human and labour rights in countries where they operate. This behavioural obligation results from the persistent advocacy of non-governmental organizations ...
By Cedric Ryngaert, Math Noortmann
August 11, 2010
Non-state actors have always been treated with ambivalence in the works of international law. While their empirical existence is widely acknowledged and their impact and influence uncontested, non-state actors are still not in the centre of international legal research. The idea that non-state ...
By Costas Laoutides
January 12, 2016
The often violent emergence of new independent states following the end of the Cold War generated discussion about the normative grounds of territorial separatism. A number of opposing approaches surfaced debating whether and under which circumstances there is a right for a community to secede from...
By Rhiannon Morgan
December 28, 2011
In the past thirty or so years, discussions of the status and rights of indigenous peoples have come to the forefront of the United Nations human rights agenda. During this period, indigenous peoples have emerged as legitimate subjects of international law with rights to exist as distinct peoples. ...