International category: 36838 books
International Bankruptcy
The Challenge of Insolvency in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
With the growth of international business and the rise of companies with subsidiaries around the world, the question of where a company should file bankruptcy proceedings has become increasingly complicated. Today, most businesses are likely to have international trading partners, or to operate and...
by Michael J. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the five major approaches of the growing field of international conflict management:
traditional peacekeeping
peace enforcement and support operations
negotiation and bargaining
mediation
adjudication.
The...
Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security
Regimes, Norms and Moral Progress in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.
In doing so, the book looks at three cases of the development of international norms in this arena. First, it traces how new international normative understandings have shaped the evolution...
by Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz, Triant Flouris
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book presents research on how businesses can be empowered to manage their company’s risk exposure in international settings. It elaborates on approaches that advocate the minimizing of threats and sizing opportunities as the best strategy through which corporate objectives are maximized. With...
International Entrepreneurship
Theoretical Foundations and Practices; Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Over the past two decades international entrepreneurship has become a key issue in international business studies. This second edition of International Entrepreneurship examines this key emerging issue from its foundations; entrepreneurship, strategic management and international business studies....
Manly States
Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations shape masculinity. Charlotte Hooper draws from feminist theory to provide an account of the relationship between masculinity and power. She explores how...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
A wide range of critical theorists is used in the study of international politics, and until now there has been no text that gives concise and accessible introductions to these figures. Critical Theorists and International Relations provides a wide-ranging introduction to thirty-two important theorists...
by Hannah Schatte
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: 1,7, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: Fifty years after the Nuremberg-Tribunal, the U.N. Commission of Experts on the Former Yugoslavia stated, that 'states may choose to combine their...
Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals
The Problem of Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years, restructuring the way states interact with each other, international institutions, and their own constituents. The international legalization of human rights now makes it possible for individuals to take human rights...
The Unfinished Global Revolution
The Road to International Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
An incomparable public servant and internationalist offers a new vision for international cooperation.
In The Unfinished Global Revolution, former United Nations deputy secretary general Mark Malloch- Brown diagnoses the central global predicament of the twenty-first century-as we have become...
Politicizing the International Criminal Court
The Convergence of Politics, Ethics, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 1998 has attracted growing interest in the evolving role of politics in international law. Steven C. Roach's innovative and systematic work on the political and ethical dimensions of the ICC is the first comprehensive attempt to situate...
New Explorations into International Relations
Democracy, Foreign Investment, Terrorism, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture...
International Law and Domestic Legal Systems
Incorporation, Transformation, and Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Different countries incorporate and interpret international law in different ways. This book provides a systematic analysis of the domestic constitutional regime of over two dozen countries, setting out the status accorded to international law in those countries and its normative weight, as well as...