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Crisis of Multilateralism? Challenges and Resilience
  • Language: en

Crisis of Multilateralism? Challenges and Resilience

This book explores the challenges that multilateralism faces today and questions the idea of a ‘crisis’ of multilateral cooperation and international organizations. It accounts for the pressures on and power shifts in multilateralism in recent years - such as the war in Syria, the Covid-19 pandemic, challenges for NATO, the erosion of multilateral norms, the transition from Trump to Biden, the rise of China, the post-Brexit European Union, and the mobilization of countries from the South. The authors illustrate the resilience of multilateralism and lessons learned from the WTO, UN Women, International Organizations’ Secretariats and global environmental governance. Written in part by members of the Research Group on Multilateral Action (GRAM), this volume argues that ‘crisis’ should not be considered a pathology but the ‘matrix’ of multilateralism, which is more resilient than commonly thought. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, global governance, and international organizations.

Crisis of Multilateralism? Challenges and Resilience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Crisis of Multilateralism? Challenges and Resilience

This book explores the challenges that multilateralism faces today and questions the idea of a ‘crisis’ of multilateral cooperation and international organizations. It accounts for the pressures on and power shifts in multilateralism in recent years - such as the war in Syria, the Covid-19 pandemic, challenges for NATO, the erosion of multilateral norms, the transition from Trump to Biden, the rise of China, the post-Brexit European Union, and the mobilization of countries from the South. The authors illustrate the resilience of multilateralism and lessons learned from the WTO, UN Women, International Organizations’ Secretariats and global environmental governance. Written in part by members of the Research Group on Multilateral Action (GRAM), this volume argues that ‘crisis’ should not be considered a pathology but the ‘matrix’ of multilateralism, which is more resilient than commonly thought. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, global governance, and international organizations.

Kosovo’s Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Kosovo’s Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations

This edited book analyzes Kosovo’s foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries. After the 1999 liberation from Serbia, Kosovo built close relations with various countries that supported it in the process of reconstruction, economic stabilization, institution-building, and state-building. From 1999 to 2008, many of these states were politically and operationally engaged in Kosovo under the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Since its independence in 2008, the Republic of Kosovo has adopted a foreign policy in accordance with its values and str...

Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation

This important Handbook brings together preeminent international scholars, sharing their comparative and international perspectives on the topic. Their original contributions cover the key issues and questions around policy transfer, diffusion and circulation research. Altogether, chapters illuminate how rich and provocative the current debate on the interpretation of how public policies travels is and the vibrancy of the area’s research within the broad planet of public policy analysis.

Business Partners
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 104

Business Partners

Très actives dans le domaine de la santé mondiale depuis la fin des années 1990, les firmes multinationales – principalement pharmaceutiques – sont aujourd’hui engagées au sein de partenariats public-privé internationaux. Quel est leur rôle et quelles actions mettent-elles en œuvre ? Sont-elles capables de coopérer avec les États, les ONG, les organisations internationales et les fondations privées ? Centré sur la lutte contre le VIH/sida, la tuberculose, le paludisme et les maladies tropicales négligées – à l’origine de dynamiques de coopération originales –, ce livre retrace l’insertion des entreprises dans la gouvernance sanitaire internationale par le biais d’organisations institutionnelles et de mécanismes de coopération liés au marché. Il montre qu’il s’agit d’un processus progressif qui, d’acteurs autonomes, a vu ces firmes devenir sujets de régulation, puis partenaires. Une enquête inédite qui permet de mieux comprendre la participation des acteurs marchands au multilatéralisme et leur capacité à modifier le fonctionnement de la gouvernance sanitaire internationale.

The Power of Standards
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

The Power of Standards

Examines a new form of power in contemporary global political economy, focusing on the hybrid authority of standards in the globalisation of services. This book is also available as Open Access.

International Organizations and Research Methods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 411

International Organizations and Research Methods

Scholars have studied international organizations (IOs) in many disciplines, thus generating important theoretical developments. Yet a proper assessment and a broad discussion of the methods used to research these organizations are lacking. Which methods are being used to study IOs and in what ways? Do we need a specific methodology applied to the case of IOs? What are the concrete methodological challenges when doing research on IOs? International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction compiles an inventory of the methods developed in the study of IOs under the five headings of Observing, Interviewing, Documenting, Measuring, and Combining. It does not reconcile diverging views on the purpose and meaning of IO scholarship, but creates a space for scholars and students embedded in different academic traditions to reflect on methodological choices and the way they impact knowledge production on IOs.

Global Diplomacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Global Diplomacy

This volume brings together different approaches to diplomacy both as an institution and a practice. The authors examine diplomacy from their own backgrounds and through sociological traditions, which shape the study of international relations (IR) in Francophone countries. The volume’s global character articulates the Francophone intellectual concerns with a variety of scholarships on diplomacy, providing a first contact with this subfield of IR for students and practitioners.

The Afterworld
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Afterworld

COVID-19 sparked the largest global crisis of the 21st century, extending well beyond public health. For some, the impact was swift and dramatic, with the pandemic pushing tens of millions into poverty and creating extreme food insecurity; for others, the transformations are still bubbling under the surface. Efforts to arrest the spread of COVID-19 entailed far-reaching forms of government intervention and the extensive use of new technologies. Questions thus remain as to whether the societal changes brought about by COVID-19 will endure in the post-pandemic period. The return of geopolitics, along with the war in Ukraine and tensions in Asia, have further complexified an already complex glo...

Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes an up-to-date methodology reference work for International Relations (IR) scholars and students. The study of IR calls for the use of multiple and various tools to try and describe international phenomena, analyze and understand them, compare them, interpret them, and try to offer theoretical approaches. In a nutshell, doing research in IR requires both tools and methods—from the use of archives to the translation of results through mapping, from conducting interviews to analyzing quantitative data, from constituting a corpus to the always touchy interpretation of images and discourses. This volume assembles twenty young researchers and professors in the field of IR and political science to discuss numerous rich and thoroughly explained case studies. Merging traditional political science approaches with methods borrowed from sociology and history, it offers a clear and instructive synthesis of the main resources and applied methods to study International Relations.