"That anthropogenic climate change is one of the foremost twenty-first century global security challenges is a view now firmly, if rather superficially, ensconced within Western liberal public and policy discourse. National security strategies have depicted it as 'an urgent and …
Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures and societies, across time, share in common. It has defined not only the ways in which individuals relate to each other, but also how colle…
Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explor…
Introduction : a storm blowing from paradise -- The terms of engagement -- An intractable question -- A most perfect kind of hustling -- On gladiatorial truths -- The stranger that stays as such -- A Copernican phantasmagoria -- The political on trial -- The scarlet P. "In 2015…
This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm. The book offers a comprehensive yet accessible review of the origins, evolution, advances and shortcomings of t…
"Africa-Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation explores the opportunities and challenges for cooperation between Africa and Europe in the digital sphere. Digitalisation and digital technologies are not only essential for building competitive and dynamic economies; they tr…
Introduction: Development, the largest of four UN functions / Stephen Browne And Thomas G. Weiss -- The UN development system : origins, structure, status / Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss -- The UN and development : objectives and governance / José Antonio Ocampo -- Emerging…
"A VINTAGE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. These driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. Just over two hundred years ago, there were one billion humans on Earth.…
"From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a lively, provocative, and eminently readable reexamination of American foreign policy, capturing not only its extraordinary achievements but the diplomatic missteps, intellectual confusion, and political…
An introduction to polycentricity and governance / Mark Stephan, Graham Marshall, Michael McGinnis -- Seeing polycentrically : examining governance situations using a polycentricity lens / William A. Blomquist and Nadine Jenny Shirin Schroeder -- Foundational aspects of polycent…
A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia--how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule--remains opaque and often m…
