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The New Transnationalism
This book explores what the privatization of global rule-making means for democracy. It reconstructs three prominent rule-making processes in the field of global sustainability politics and argues that, if designed properly, private transnational rule-making can be as democratic as intergovernmental rule-making.
Managers of Global Change
This title is an examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. After a discussion of theoretical context, reaserch design, and empiral methodology, the book presents nine in-depth case studies of bureaucracies.
International Organizations Under Pressure
International organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In recent years, many of them have also become heavily politicized. In this work, we examine how the norms and values that underpin the evaluations of international organizations have changed over the past 50 years. Looking at five organizations in depth, we observe two major trends. Taken together, both trends make the legitimation of international organizations more challenging today.
The Political Economy of International Law
Set in the context of growing interdisciplinarity in legal research, The Political Economy of International Law: A European Perspective provides a much-needed systematic and coherent review of the interactions between Political Economy and International Law. The book reflects the need felt by international lawyers to open their traditional frontiers to insights from other disciplines - and political economy in particular. The methodological approach of the book is to take the traditional list of topics for a general treatise of international law, and to systematically incorporate insights from political economy to each.
The Language of World Trade Politics
The language of world trade politics : introduction / Klaus Dingwerth and Clara Weinhardt -- Trade / Matthew Eagleton-Pierce -- Protectionism / Gary Winslett -- Foreign direct investment / Lukas Linsi -- Multilateralism / Matthew Bishop and Valbona Muzaka -- Democracy / Klaus Dingwerth -- Civil society / Michael Strange -- Coherence / Felix Anderl -- Development / Angela Geck and Clara Weinhardt -- Environment / Emily Lydgate -- Justice / Clara Brandi
Broken Solidarities
Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of the social movement against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. The book observes international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.
The Opening Up of International Organizations
The most comprehensive study of how international organizations have opened up to transnational actors over the past sixty years.
Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia
Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics of multiple actors, levels, and policy fields in energy throughout Europe and Russia, with the aim of offering an alternative view to the prevalent geopolitical or neoliberal approaches.
The Language of World Trade Politics
This book asks two broad questions: how and by whom have the meanings of different terms used to describe, challenge and defend global trade politics been constructed?
The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State
This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South. Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a changing international environment as well as with changing domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed to predatory, rentier and developmental), in ...
