Pigman. G.A. The World Economic Forum: A multi-stakeholder approach to global governance

Изд. Routledge, 1996. 276 p. This exciting new text adopts a challenging question-led approach to the major issues facing global society today, in order to investigate the nature and complexity of global change. Among other things it looks at the future of the state, the environment, the international political economy, war and global rivalries, and the role of international law and the UN in the post-Cold War world. The book devises a readily c...

Routledge, 2007. 313 p. This unique volume examines the opportunities for, and initiates work in, interdisciplinary research between the fields of international law and international relations, disciplines that have engaged little with one another since the Second World War. Written by leading experts in the fields of international law and international relations, it argues that such interdisciplinary research is central to the creation of a kno...

Global Governance 12 (2006), 227–232. What is the optimal relationship between global bodies and regional agencies in international security? This question has been intensively discussed at various junctures during the last century, including at the establishment of the United Nations in the 1940s. Indeed, the regional approach was the loser at this juncture, when the Charter made provision for a dimly conceived and vaguely apprehended regionali...

Third edition 2005 Published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 294 p. Introduction: Defining International Relations. Perspectives and theories. Conclusion. The Development of International Relations. Theory in the Twentieth Century. ntroduction. Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline. The ‘realist’ critique of liberal internationalism. The post-war synthesis. nternational Relations and the behavioural sciences. Challenges to the realis...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 259 p. In this sweeping vision of an emerging world community, Etzioni, a distinguished sociologist and leading communitarian thinker, lays out a world order that charts a path between power-oriented realism and law-oriented liberalism. It is a vision in which U.S. power is closely tied to a wider global community infused with shared values and bolstered by legitimate institutions of governance. Despite acrimony over th...

Oxford University Press, 2007. 354 p. This is one of the finest books on the normative dimension of global governance published in the past decade. Utilizing insights from the English School, liberal institutionalism, and constructivism, the author addresses some of the most profound questions on the nature, limitations, and possibilities of global order in the twenty-first century. Andrew Hurrell, a former student of Hedley Bull, goes beyond th...

Hardcover: 264 pages. Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 2, 2009). Language: English. ISBN-10: 0521842166. ISBN-13: 978-0521842167. Contents. Preface page ix. Acknowledgements xi. List of commonly used abbreviations xii. ntroduction: The environment and international. relations. nternational environmental problems. Actors in international environmental politics. State-led global environmental governance. nternational cooperation and...

Routledge, 2002. 298 p. Robert O. Keohane has been one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in international relations for more than three decades. His groundbreaking work in institutional theory has redefined our understanding of international political economy. This book is a selection of his most recent essays, which address such core issues as interdependence, institutions, the development of international law, globalization, and...

Routldge, 2000. 239 p. At the turn of the millennium, and now after the fall of the Berlin wall, the best way to map the trajectories of contemporary international relations is hotly contested. Is the world more or less ordered than during the Cold War? Are we on the way to a neo-liberal era of free markets and global governance, or in danger of collapsing into a new Middle Ages? Are we on the verge of a new world order or are we slipping back i...

Ashgate, 2007. Second Edition. 406 pp. Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century, this new edition anticipates the world of regionalism as we move further into this millennium. This new edition offers: - A vigorous response to conventional wisdom on EU international identity...