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  • The United Nations In The Post-cold War Era, Second Edition

    by Karen Mingst, Margaret P. Karns ...
    The United Nations faced unprecedented opportunities and heightened expectations when the Cold War ended in 1990. By the time of the UN's fiftieth anniversary in 1995, the mood had shifted. Peacekeepers were bogged down in Bosnia and Somalia. Iraq continued to test the UN's resolve to enforce arms control inspections. In much of the world, the gap between haves and have-nots was increasing. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The United Nations in the 21st Century

    by Karen A. Mingst, Margaret P. Karns, Alynna J. Lyon ...
    The United Nations in the 21st Century, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the UN. It explores the historical, institutional, and theoretical foundations of the UN as well as major global trends and challenges facing the organization today, including changing major power dynamics, new threats to peace and security, the migration and refugee crises, the COVID-19 ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Teaching International Affairs With Cases

    Crossnational Perspectives

    by Karen A. Mingst, Katsuhiko Mori ...
    This book introduces intellectual and pedagogical problems in the case method of teaching international affairs. A growing international and interdisciplinary community of university and secondary schoolteachers and trainers of policy officials are introducing interactive learning methods for the classroom. This book offers lessons for them and provides new materials suitable for the classroom. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Politics and the African Development Bank

    by Karen A. Mingst ...
    The African continent has long been plagued by economic problems. During the 1970s, with famines and two oil crises, the attention of the international donor community was riveted on Africa. In the 1980s international organizations, both governmental and private, have responded to the African crises.One increasingly visible organization is the African Development Bank, recently heralded by the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The United States and Multilateral Institutions

    Patterns of Changing Instrumentality and Influence

    Edited by Margaret P. Karns, Karen A. Mingst ...
    World politics in the post-Cold War world has become increasingly institutionalized. However, the role of international organizations has been overlooked in much of the literature on international regimes. Now in paperback, The United States and Multilateral Institutions examines United States policy in areas ranging from international trade to human rights, and in institutions such as the ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    Edited by Isobel Coleman, Terra Lawson-Remer ...
    Through case studies on Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, and Ukraine, Pathways to Freedom explores the factors and choices that shaped eight transitions—some successful, others less so. Its concise historical analysis and forward-looking prescriptions offer an authoritative and accessible look at what countries must do to build durable and prosperous democracies ... Read more

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  • A Voice for Human Rights

    by Mary Robinson, Louise Arbour, Kofi Annan ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Few names are so closely connected with the cause of human rights as that of Mary Robinson. As former President of Ireland, she was ideally positioned for passionately and eloquently arguing the case for human rights around the world. Over five tumultuous years that included the tragic events of 9/11, she offered moral leadership and vision to the global human rights movement. This volume is a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series What's Wrong?
    Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today’s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9 ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

    The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection

    by Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher, James Milner ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes:up to date coverage of the UNHCR’s most recent history and policy developmentsevaluation of new thinking on issues such ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The New Economic Diplomacy

    Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

    Edited by Nicholas Bayne, Stephen Woolcock ...
    Series series Global Governance
    The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically, how they negotiate internationally and how these processes interact. Although the previous edition, published in 2011, was able to reflect the impact of the financial crisis and the immediate reaction to it, a lot has happened since then, and the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy

    by Kenneth Heydon ...
    This volume provides a state of the art review of current thinking on the full range of trade policy issues, addressing the economic and political dimensions of international trade policy. The volume contains a systematic examination of: - specific trade policy instruments (such as tariffs, non-tariff barriers and trade rules) - sectoral concerns (in agriculture, manufacturing and services) - ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Comparing Public Policies

    Issues and Choices in Industrialized Countries

    by Jessica R. Adolino, Charles H. Blake ...
    The study of comparative public policy reveals the intensely political nature of policy choices. While policy analysts often look to policy successes and failures outside their borders to draw valuable lessons and insights, cultural, economic, political, and institutional conditions vary from country to country and strongly affect how policy analysis is ultimately used. By combining a conceptual ... Read more

    $87.29 USD