Treaties category: 216 books
by Stephen Browne
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The book:
traces the origins and evolution of UNDP, outlining how...
The US NATO Debate
From Libya to Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Since the Libya War in 2011 it has been widely suggested that NATO's role in US security policy has diminished, because Washington gives Europe less and Asia more strategic priority (a tendency that is reinforced by budget restraints), and because the US is no longer interested in always leading NATO...
Great Power Multilateralism and the Prevention of War
Debating a 21st Century Concert of Powers
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Great-power conflict and great-power war are still the most dangerous risks the international community is facing today. This edited volume investigates the feasibility of a modern day concert of powers as a way for managing the risk of great power conflicts in the 21st century. The volume takes its...
Global Ecopolitics
Crisis, Governance, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather, international conventions on climate change, or special UN days, rarely do we participate in a sustained analysis of environmental policy making. To remedy this shortcoming and to propel the discussion forward, Peter J. Stoett provides a concise introduction...
Thirty Years of SAARC
Society, Culture and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book traces economic and political issues through SAARC’s thirty-year journey.
Topical and well-researched, this collection provides a comprehensive assessment of SAARC and provides policy directives for the future. The book points out the issues and constraints that have hindered...
Friends, Foes, and Future Directions
U.S. Partnerships in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Report evaluates strategies for dealing with U.S. partners and adversaries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in a time of diminishing defense budgets and American public preference for a domestic focus. The three proposed strategies are to be more assertive, to be more collaborative, or to retrench...
Why Adjudicate?
Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade. Why do countries choose to adjudicate their trade disputes in the WTO rather than settling their differences on their own? In Why Adjudicate?, Christina Davis investigates the...
Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care in India
Lessons for developing countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Public-private partnerships are increasingly advocated to alleviate deficiencies in the public health system as well as to reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive, burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on India, this book examines how the private sector...
The EU and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict 1971–2013
In Pursuit of a Just Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Just peace has been much talked about in everyday life, but it is less well researched by academics. The rationale of this book is therefore to probe what constitutes a just peace, both conceptually within the field of peacebuilding and empirically in the context of the EU as a peacebuilder in the...
by Deepayan Basu Ray, Martin Butcher, Ben Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Across the world 2,000 people die each day from armed violence. Crucial negotiations for an arms trade treaty are taking place at the United Nations throughout July 2012. Oxfam's eBook 'The Final Countdown' explores the devastating impact of the arms trade and explains what the new treaty must contain...
Partitioning for Peace
An Exit Strategy for Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Combining a history of Iraq and its dominant sects with an acute awareness of the political machinations fomenting worldwide, this keen military analysis offers a practical exit strategy for U.S. armed forces in Iraq—partitioning, a unique strategy that has been successful in other chaotic political situations.
by Ken Booth
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, first published in 1985, is one of the few comprehensive treatments on the subject from a strategic perspective. It offers a detailed strategic analysis of the background and outcome of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, and its naval implications.
The...
by Nick Reynold
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This book provides an in-depth survey of Britain’s Mandate in Palestine, an issue crucial to understanding the continuing atmosphere of mistrust and violence in the region that continues to the present.
At the conclusion of the First World War (1914–18), the League of Nations awarded a...
Costituzione italiana contro trattati europei
Il conflitto inevitabile
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Una riflessione sulla necessità di anteporre
i vincoli della Costituzione a quelli
dei trattati europei.
Un saggio chiaro e necessario su una questione
decisiva di cui si parla troppo poco.
Lotta all’inflazione e autonomia della banca centrale, massima concorrenza e minimo intervento...