Treaties category: 216 books
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine
An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinian people, including drawing a...
Vienna, 1814
How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”
—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer
Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious...
Conflict Resolution in South Caucasus
Challenges to International Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the South Caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to these efforts. The South Caucasus region has long been roiled by the lingering ethno-national conflicts—Nagorno-Karabakh...
Non-Governmental Development Organizations and the Poverty Reduction Agenda
The moral crusaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world. This book offers a highly stimulating and concise summary of the...
From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda
Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the...
EU-Russia Relations
Time for a Realistic Turnaround
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
In this paper, three long-time observers of Russia and the EU perform a reality check on the EU–Russia relationship. All three authors agree that a more realistic EU policy would deal with Russia as it is, not as the EU wants it to be. The reality of today’s Russia is complex, as is the policy...
Transatlantic Free Trade
An Agenda for Jobs, Growth and Global Trade Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This paper presents the case for deepened trade and investment policy cooperation between the European Union and the United States. A trade deal between the two economic powers has become an increasingly popular notion, particularly given increased competition from China. Old arguments against a transatlantic...
Only One Earth
The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows...
The United States and Central America
Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book is a concise overview of the recent history of U.S.-Central American relations. Part of the Contemporary Inter-American Relations series edited by Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, it focuses on the relations between the U.S. and this region since the end of the Cold War.
The volume...
by Kwame Akonor
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book analyzes how, and under what conditions, African International Economic Organizations (IEO) have evolved, and what individual and collective contributions, if any, these African IEOs have had on Africa’s socio-economic development.
Providing a comprehensive and accessible overview,...
Trade, Poverty, Development
Getting Beyond the WTO's Doha Deadlock
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This work seeks to look beyond the seemingly endless deadlock in the WTO’s Doha round of trade negotiations that began in November 2001 and were first scheduled to conclude by January 1, 2005. As well as offering an incisive analysis of the ills of the round, with particular attention directed at...
Post-2015 UN Development
Making Change Happen?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration included development targets to be reached by 2015, which were to become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Progress has been made towards the achievement of the MDGs,...
EU Policies: an Overview
From Decision-Making to Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
by Sarwar A. Kashmeri
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
On September 5, 2009, the commanding officer of NATO's German troops in Afghanistan ordered a U.S. Air Force fighter to destroy two fuel trucks hijacked by theTaliban. Within hours, he was being investigated by German prosecutors for the murder of innocent civilians—collateral damage. Under German...