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After Mass Crime: Rebuilding States and Communities

Edited by Béatrice Pouligny, Simon Chesterman and Albrecht Schnabel

Insufficient attention has been paid to the radical transformations in their belief systems and codes of conduct after the experience of mass crime. This book seeks to bridge this divide by offering a trans-disciplinary analysis of the impact of mass crime on the rebuilding of social and political relations.

Arms Control after Iraq: Normative and Operational Challenges

Edited by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Ramesh Thakur

The stated reason for invading Iraq was its alleged clandestine pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in defiance of UN resolutions.

Atrocities and International Accountability

Edited by William A. Schabas, Ramesh Thakur, and Edel Hughes

Rebuilding societies where conflict has occurred is rarely a simple process; but where conflict has been accompanied by gross and systematic violations of human rights, the procedure becomes fraught with controversy.

Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution

Edited by Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond

Demonstrates that ill-conceived or imposed peace processes can sow the seeds of 'spoiling', and considers why such behaviour emerges and how it can be addressed.

The Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation, Challenges and Opportunities

Edited by Ramesh Thakur and Ere Haru

Explores the achievements of the CWC and the issues that must be tackled to ensure the regime's continuing vitality.

Diasporas in Conflict: Peacemakers or Peace Wreckers?

Edited by Hazel Smith and Paul Stares

Diasporas can have a positive and a negative impact on international politics. Groups of exiles, refugees, migrants and other forms of diaspora populations play a part in the processes and outcomes of international politics in both their native and adopted countries.

Floods in Bangladesh: History, Dynamics and Rethinking the Role of the Himalayas

Thomas Hofer and Bruno Messerli. (Co-published with FAO)

Politicians and engineers perceive monsoon floods as the main problem for Bangladesh but the affected people are more concerned with erosion, landlessness and economic survival.

Global Multi-level Governance: European and East Asian Leadership

César de Prado

This book examines the opportunity to sustain peace and prosperity through dynamic, multi-level governance in which individual states better engage in global processes and institutions.

Humanitarian Diplomacy: Practitioners and their Craft

Edited by Larry Minear and Hazel Smith

This book examines the opportunity to sustain peace and prosperity through dynamic, multi-level governance in which individual states better engage in global processes and institutions via broad and hyperlinked regional regimes.

Industrial Clusters and Innovation Systems in Africa

Edited by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Dorothy McCormick

This book is the first to examine the incidence and role of clusters as a viable and increasingly important form of industrial organization in Africa. It presents a series of theoretically grounded case studies that analyze clusters in different industrial sectors and at different levels of economic development.

Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation: Developing Workable Solutions

Edited by Saeed Parto and Brent Herbert-Copley

What role should governments play in protecting the environment and controlling industry? Do regulations benefit the environment, and how do they affect industrial innovation?

Interlinkages and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

W. Bradnee Chambers

In recent years there has been growing awareness that a major reason for the worsening global environment is the failure to create adequate institutional responses to fully address the scope, magnitude and complexity of environmental problems. Much of the criticism directed at the global institutions has focused on the necessity for greater coordination and synergism among environmental institutions, policies and legal instruments, and the need for approaches that take better account of the inter-relationships between ecological and societal systems. This book seeks to fill the gap in knowledge and policy-making that exists, particularly in international law.

Institutional Change and Economic Development

Edited by Ha-Joon Chang

The issue of institutional development has come to prominence during the last decade or so. During this period, even the IMF and the World Bank, which used to treat institutions as mere 'details', have come to emphasize the role of institutions in economic development. However, there are still some important knowledge gaps that need to be filled before we can say that we have a good grip on the issue of institutions and economic development, both theoretically and at the policy level. This book is an attempt to fill these gaps.

Institutional Interplay: Biosafety and Trade

Edited by Oran R. Young, W. Bradnee Chambers, Joy A. Kim and Claudia ten Have

International institutions and the consequences of their interplay are emerging as a major agenda item for research and policy. As governments enter into an ever-increasing number of international agreements, questions arise about the overlap of issues, jurisdiction and membership.

The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural, Institutional and Normative Challenges

Edited by Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu

The Iraq war was a multiple assault on the foundations and rules of the existing UN-centred world order.

Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

Edited by Jörn Birkmann

Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards presents a broad range of current approaches to measuring vulnerability and contains concrete experiences and examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe to illustrate the theoretical analyses.

Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power, International Order, and Structural Change

Edited by Edward Newman, Ramesh Thakur and John Tirman

Explores the performance and future of multilateral approaches and institutions with reference to major global problems such as terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and humanitarian assistance.

National Interest and International Solidarity: Particular and Universal Ethics in International Life

Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler

Taking as its point of departure the perennial tension between particular and universal ethics in international society, this book seeks to explore and understand the motivations of actors in different international contexts where national interests and solidarity concerns intersect.

The Politics of Participation in Sustainable Development Governance

Edited by by Jessica F. Green and W. Bradnee Chambers

Written by leading experts and practitioners in the field of sustainable development, this book examines the obstacles to effective participation, and how they can be overcome to improve both the quality of engagement and the resulting systems of sustainable development governance.

Reconstituting Korean Security: A Policy Primer

Edited by Hazel Smith

This book tackles Korean security dilemmas from the perspective of the various international actors, not just from the viewpoint of the major protagonists – the DPRK and the United States. We show that different states and international organizations have different and multiple interests in their relationships with the DPRK and with each other.

Regulating Globalization: Critical Approaches to Global Governance

Edited by Pierre de Senarclens and Ali Kazancigil

While globalization is thriving, its consequences remain contradictory and controversial. Although it is an effective process in generating economic growth, it can also lead to an excessive concentration of wealth and, in some sectors, increasing inequalities within and between countries.

Sustainable Cities: Japanese Perspectives on Physical and Social Structures

Edited by Hidenori Tamagawa

Japan is one of the most urbanized countries in the world and offers a remarkable series of lessons for sustainable planning in rapidly-urbanizing developing countries.

Trade and investment rule-making: The role of regional and bilateral agreements

Edited by Stephen Woolcock

This book addresses the role of regional and bilateral agreements in rule-making; provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of regional and other preferential agreements on rule-making; and illustrates the role of regional agreements in a multi-level process of rule-making.

Trafficking in Humans: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions

Edited by Sally Cameron and Edward New man

This volume aims to deepen understanding of the social, economic and political contexts of human trafficking: the recruitment and transportation of human beings through deception and coercion for the purposes of exploitation. Upon this basis, the volume considers whether an understanding of these underlying factors—what may be called 'structural'—can inform policy discussion as well as strategic interventions regarding the fight against trafficking.

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