International Relations

Examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether the West Papuan people ever genuinely exercised self-determination...

Reconsiders the UN's Declaration of Principles of International Law Governing Friendly Relations Between States in the light of new problems of conflict resolution...

This book discusses the evolution of the United Nations (UN) as a knowledge organization. This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated, warehoused, disseminated, structured, packaged, expanded, transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout t..

This study presents a case for the reform of the United Nations and discusses possible measures for enforcing peace worldwide. There are separate chapters on such topics as the General Assembly, Security Council, the Secretary-General and the Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice...

This book analyzes the development of US 'dual containment' policy towards Iran and Iraq with special reference to the former. It covers the period from the early 1980s through to the present...

US policy in areas ranging from international trade to human rights, in institutions such as the IMF, GATT and the World Health Organisation...

Why and how is America contested by Europe? This new book answers this question and contributes to a better understanding of contemporary transatlantic tensions...

A descriptive and analytic narrative addressing continuity and change in US policy towards both Arab Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan...

This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade...

To the Cloud..

This new book examines European Network Enabled Capabilities and their implications for transatlantic interoperability in future coalition operations with the US...

Comparing non-governmental organizations in the United Nations and the European Union across a range of different issue areas, this book examines how the choice of venue and institution affects the actions and strategies of NGOs...