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Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding
2015 || Paperback || Roger Mac Ginty || Taylor & Francis
This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term peacebuilding, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term peacebuilding has had remarkable staying power. Other terms, such as conflict resolution have waned in popularity, while the acceptance and use of the term peacebuilding has grown to the extent that it is the hegemonic and over-arching term for many forms of mediatio...
International Organizations Perspectives on Global Governance
Perspectives on Global Governance
2018 || Paperback || Kelly-Kate S. Pease || Taylor & Francis
Drawing on mainstream and critical theoretical approaches, International Organizations offers a comprehensive examination of international organizations' political and structural role in world politics. This text details the types and activities of international organizations and provides students with the conceptual tools needed to evaluate their effectiveness. Surveying key issue areas from international and human security to trade and the environment, International Organizations looks at p...
Leadership
five Studies in World Strategy
2022 || Hardcover || Henry Kissinger || Allen Lane
Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which h...
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De bestuurlijke kaart van de Europese Unie / Druk 6
Instellingen, besluitvorming en beleid
2023 || Paperback || Anna van der Vleuten || Coutinho
De afgelopen jaren is de relevantie van de Europese Unie enorm toegenomen door grensoverschrijdende problemen als de COVID-19-epidemie, de energiecrisis, klimaatverandering en migratie. Bovendien woedt een oorlog op het continent, die een EU-breed antwoord vereist. Des te belangrijker is het om te begrijpen hoe de EU werkt. De bestuurlijke kaart van de Europese Unie heeft tot doel de kennis over en het inzicht in de Europese politiek te vergroten. Wie het leest, leert niet alleen wie waarover...
Risk Management for Security Professionals
2017 || Hardcover || C. A. Roper || Butterworth-Heinemann
This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed.
Risk Management as presented in this book has several goal...
Global Distributive Justice
An Introduction
2020 || Paperback || Chris Armstrong || Cambridge University Press
This is the first textbook to focus exclusively on issues of distributive justice on the global scale. It gives clear and up-to-date accounts of the major theories of global justice and spells out their significance for a series of political issues, including climate change, international trade, human rights and migration.
Global Climate Governance
2021 || Paperback || David Coen e.a. || Cambridge University Press
This Element takes stock of the current state of the global climate change regime, illuminating scope for policymaking and mobilizing collective action through networked governance at all scales, from the sub-national to the highest global level of political assembly.
Contemporary Conflict Resolution / 4th edition
The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflicts
2023 || Paperback || O Ramsbotham || Polity Press
Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda. The fourth edition of this hugely popular text explains the key concepts, charts the development of the field, evaluates successes and failures, and assesses the main current challenges and debates in the second decade of the twenty-first century. In response to ongoing changes in the dynamics of global conflict, including the events and conseque...
Understanding European Union Law / 8th Edition
2022 || Paperback || Karen Davies e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Providing short, clear and accessible explanations of the main areas of EU law, Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished. This eighth edition has been fully revised and updated with the latest legislative changes and includes an in-depth discussion of 'Brexit' and its implications for EU-UK relations. The book provides readers with a clear understanding of the structures and ration...
Analyzing the European Union Policy Process
210 || Hardcover || Esther Versluis e.a. || Macmillan
Readers are provided with a practical insight into how to analyze policies and policy-making in the EU. Using case studies to deepen readers' understanding, this book examines the various stages of the policy process - from the moment the issue reaches the agenda through to drafting, implementation and evaluation.