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  • International Organizations

    Politics, Law, Practice

    by Ian Hurd ...
    As international organizations become ever more prominent in global politics it is increasingly urgent to understand their power, their limits, and their effects. Now in its fourth edition, this leading textbook provides the definitive introduction to modern international organizations, from the legal charters of their beginnings, to the issues they engage with in the contemporary world. In his ... Read more

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  • International Organizations

    Politics, Law, Practice

    by Ian Hurd ...
    International organizations are increasingly important to global politics, law, and culture. Now in its fifth edition, this leading textbook provides the definitive introduction to modern international organizations by examining a dozen prominent global institutions. With a mix of legal, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the author examines timely cases where IOs are in the headlines today ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • How to Do Things with International Law

    by Ian Hurd ...
    A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politicsConventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world. In How to Do Things with International Law, Ian Hurd challenges this received wisdom. Bringing the study of law and legality together with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of international organizations. Aimed at academics, students, practitioners, and ... Read more

    $207.89 USD

  • After Anarchy

    Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council

    by Ian Hurd ...
    The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations. When states perceive an international organization as legitimate, they defer to it, associate themselves with it, and invoke its symbols. Examining the United Nations Security Council, Ian Hurd demonstrates how legitimacy is created, used, and contested in international relations. The Council's authority depends on its legitimacy, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority

    Edited by Bruce Cronin, Ian Hurd ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the basic idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs. The individual essays survey the implications that flow from these developments in the crucial policy areas of: terrorism; economic sanctions; the prosecution of war crimes; human rights; humanitarian intervention; and the use of force. In each of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights

    Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the ... Read more

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  • "They're Bankrupting Us!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Unions

    Series Book 2 - Myths Made in America
    From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In "They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions, labor leader ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations

    Edited by Thomas G. Weiss, Sam Daws ...
    This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners. It provides a clear and penetrating examination of the UN's development since 1945 and the challenges and opportunities now facing the organization. It assesses the implications for ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Obama and America's Political Future

    Series series Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics
    Obama’s 2008 victory, coming amid the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s, opened the door to major reforms. But he quickly faced skepticism from supporters and fierce opposition from Republicans. What happened? Skocpol surveys the political landscape to help us to understand Obama’s triumphs and setbacks and see where we might be headed next. ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Transatlantic Free Trade

    An Agenda for Jobs, Growth and Global Trade Leadership

    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    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 deal have become weaker as the balance of the world’s economies has changed. Such an ... Read more

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  • American Trade Politics and the Triumph of Globalism

    by Orin Kirshner ...
    Series series Foreign Policy Analysis
    A deep and unresolved tension exists within American trade politics between the nation’s promotion of an open world trading system and the operations of its democratic domestic political regime. Whereas most scholarly attention has focused on how domestic politics has interfered with the United States’ global economic leadership, Orin Kirshner offers here an analysis of the ways in which U.S. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD