International category: 36838 books
Causes and Consequences of International Conflict
Data, Methods and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Investigation into the causes of international conflict has in many ways formed the central locus of the early work in the scientific investigation of world politics. This edited volume contains the most recent quantitative work in this area, reflecting the current state of the field in the topics...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The growth of global commerce depends on many different factors and strategies in order for multinational corporations to efficiently compete and thrive in the international marketplace. In addition to business strategies, corporations must also be aware of political affairs that may impact their...
by Jorun Baumgartner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic invocation of another nationality with the aim of accessing another (usually more favourable) investment treaty for purposes...
Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development
National and International Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book reflects the research output of the Committee on the International Protection of Consumers of the International Law Association (ILA). The Committee was created in 2008, with a mandate to study the role of public and private law to protect consumers, review UN Guidelines, and to model laws,...
Climate Change and Energy Insecurity
The Challenge for Peace, Security and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and when coupled with energy production and use - the most significant contributor to climate change - and the related security problems the double threat to international security and human development...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book consists of edited versions of the papers delivered at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law’s 11th International Colloquium, held at Swansea Law School in September 2015. Featuring a team of contributors at the top of their profession, both in practice and academia, these...
Internationalization of Law
Globalization, International Law and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The book provides an overview of how international law is today constructed through diverse macro and microprocesses that expand its traditional subjects and sources, with the attribution of sovereign capacity and power to the international plane (moving the international toward the national). Simultaneously,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
This volume addresses the emergence of multiple legal and law-like arrangements that alter the interaction between states, their delegated agencies, international organizations and non-state actors in international and transnational politics.
Political scientists and legal scholars have been...
Regime-Building
Democratization and International Administration
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This book is a study of regime change in the context of international administration, where the United Nations and other multilateral organisations hold temporary executive authority at the domestic level. Work on the politics of state-building has highlighted how these administration operations can...
Neutrality in International Law
From the Sixteenth Century to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Neutrality is a legal relationship between a belligerent State and a State not participating in a war, namely a neutral State. The law of neutrality is a body of rules and principles that regulates the legal relations of neutrality. The law of neutrality obliges neutral States to treat all belligerent...
Organizing Democracy
How International Organizations Assist New Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democratic transitions and membership in international...
Inter-organizational Relations in International Security
Cooperation and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book examines the politics of the relationships between multilateral organizations that have come to play a major role in contemporary efforts to manage international security.
Drawing on concepts developed in Organizational Studies, the book starts from the assumption that inter-organizational...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards,...
Transboundary Water Governance and International Actors in South Asia
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard. Yet neither SAWI nor other international...