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by Gökçe Bayındır Goularas, Işıl Zeynep Turkan İpek, Melih Görgün
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
International migration has been subject to many studies, conducted by academics, students, policy makers, and in civil society. As the migration flows continue to increase amongst countries, new dynamics shape international politics, economy, and culture. In this context, the main purpose of this...
International Approach to Conflict Management
Discuss three reasons why an international approach to conflict management might be more successful than a regional or state approach.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: In many cases, actors on the international level can...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists, critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities or if they simply reinforce relations...
Rethinking Neo-Institutional Statebuilding
The Knowledge Paradox of International Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book examines how neo-institutional statebuilding undercuts international policy agency. Post-Cold War interventions are marked by a peculiar paradox. From peace and statebuilding projects in war-shattered societies to World Bank development programmes in Africa, the scope of external regulation...
International Criminal Law and Sexual Violence against Women
The Interpretation of Gender in the Contemporary International Criminal Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book explores the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in international criminal law and asks what the juridicalisation of gender-based violence signifies for women. The book explores the portrayal of the various gendered identities that surface in armed conflict and it asks whether the law...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
From trade relations to greenhouse gases, from shipwrecks to cybercrime, treaties structure the rights and obligations of states, international organizations, and individuals. For centuries, treaties have regulated relations among nation states. Today, they are the dominant source of international...
Pragmatic Liberal Approach To World Order
The Scholarship of Inis L. Claude, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
There are two well-known approaches to the study of international relations: Realism and Idealism. This book explores the writings of Inis L. Claude, Jr., a preeminent scholar on international relations, to define a third approach. Pragmatic liberalism, an "in-between" approach, argues that a liberal...
by Murray Colin Alder
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Determining the earliest point in time at which international law authorises a state to exercise its inherent right of self-defence is an issue which has been debated, but unsatisfactorily reasoned, by scholars and states since the 1960’s. Yet it remains arguably the most pressing question of law...
Willy Brandt and International Relations
Europe, the USA and Latin America, 1974-1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
While there are many books that deal with Brandt's foreign policy as West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt and International Relations is the only book to deal with Brandt's politics as elder statesman between 1974 and 1992. The editors have assembled a group of authors from Germany, the USA, Latin...
The Post-Cold War International System
Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The end of the Cold War has opened up a 'real world laboratory' in which to test and refine general theories of international relations. Using the frameworks provided by structural realism, institutionalism and liberalism, The Post-Cold War International System examines how major powers responded...
by Patrick Macklem
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law. Professor Macklem argues that the mission of international human rights law is to mitigate adverse consequences...
Queering International Law
Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy – notably postcolonial and feminist analyses. Beyond the push in the human rights...
by Surabhi Ranganathan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Treaty conflicts are not merely the contingent or inadvertent by-products of the increasing juridification of international relations. In several instances, states have deliberately created treaty conflicts in order to catalyse changes in multilateral regimes. Surabhi Ranganathan uses such conflicts...
by Karina Oborune
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A-, University of Basel (Europainstitute), course: Mediation, language: English, abstract: In the last fifteen years performance of mediators in the circumstances of lack...