African Economic Institutions
By Kwame Akonor
This book analyzes how, and under what conditions, African International Economic
Organizations (IEO) have evolved, and what individual and collective contributions, if
any, these African IEOs have had on Africa’s socio-economic development...
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Published 16th September 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-50045-6
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The African Union
Challenges of globalization, security, and governance
By Samuel M. Makinda, F. Wafula Okumu
A comprehensive examination of the work of the African Union (AU), with special
emphasis on its capacity to meet the challenges of building and sustaining governance
institutions and security mechanisms. Samuel Makinda and F. Wafula Okumu show
how...
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Published 4th October 2007 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-40349-8
Bankrupting Nature
Denying Our Planetary Boundaries
By Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström
This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the
global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite
growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource...
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Published 5th November 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-53969-2
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Becoming a Trustworthy Leader
Psychology and Practice
By Aneil K. Mishra, Karen E. Mishra
It's time to discover a new way for individuals to lead organizations and societies. Trust
in a variety of institutions, including governmental and business, is at an all-time low. In
order to strengthen society from its foundations, we need to...
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Published 17th December 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-88282-8
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Building Inclusive Cities
Women’s Safety and the Right to the City
Edited by Carolyn Whitzman, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky,
Margaret Shaw, Kalpana Viswanath
Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa,
and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting
edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women’s...
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Published 30th August 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-62816-7
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Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference
in Development?
Edited by Rachel A. Parker, Richard P. Appelbaum
In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been thoughtfully edited to ensure
coherence and readability across disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around
the world provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of,...
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Published 4th January 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-88433-4
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Carbon Governance, Climate Change and
Business Transformation
Edited by Adam Bumpus, Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez, Chukwumerije Okereke,
James Tansey
Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the
solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security. Despite
advances in policy, carbon management and continuing development of clean
technology,...
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To Be Published 20th February 2014 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-81690-8
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Chairing Multilateral Negotiations
The Case of the United Nations
By Spyros Blavoukos, Dimitris Bourantonis
This book examines the important role of the chairmanship office in multilateral
negotiations within the UN setting. Although chairmanship is a generic feature of
international politics, negotiations, and decision-making, it has been scarcely
researched...
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Published 9th June 2011 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-49082-5
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Cities and Climate Change
Global Report on Human Settlements 2011
By Un-Habitat
Cities and Climate Change examines the links between urbanization and climate
change, the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations and
the policy responses and practices that are emerging in urban areas. Over half of the...
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Published 14th March 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-1-84971-371-9
Citizen Participation in Global Environmental
Governance
Edited by Richard Worthington, Mikko Rask, Lammi Minna
On one day in 2009, in thirty-eight countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens
gathered to discuss the future of climate policy. This project, 'WWViews', was the firstever global democratic deliberation – an attempt...
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Published 26th October 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-1-84971-379-5
Conflict Management in Divided Societies
Theories and Practice
Edited by Stefan Wolff, Christalla Yakinthou
This exciting and innovative new textbook takes a multi-perspective approach to the
study of conflict management in divided societies. Offering a wide range of perspectives
from the leading experts in the field, the work explains conflict management...
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Published 22nd September 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-56374-1
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Contemporary Human Rights Ideas
By Bertrand G. Ramcharan
The vindication of human rights is a critical challenge of a new century. Yet, there is
much contestation over rights in a globalizing, post 9/11 world, as human rights ideas
come into contact with different cultures and with societies in varying stages...
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Published 16th April 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77457-4
Contemporary Water Governance in the Global
South
Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
Edited by Leila M. Harris, Jacqueline A. Goldin, Christopher Sneddon
The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now
familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost
every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water
in urban...
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Published 15th May 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-65799-0
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Crisis of Global Sustainability
By Tapio Kanninen
This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of
sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and
enforce sustainable development, proposing new organizational solutions to deal with
the...
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Published 18th December 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-69417-9
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The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership
A Critical Perspective
By Dennis Tourish
Most research into leadership has presented leaders as heroic, charismatic and
transformational ‘visionaries’. The leader, whether in business, politics or
any other field, is the most important factor in determining whether...
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Published 4th March 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-56428-1
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Dictionary and Introduction to Global
Environmental Governance
2nd Edition
By Richard E. Saunier, Richard A. Meganck
This unique dictionary and introduction to Global Environmental Governance (GEG),
written and compiled by two veterans of the international stage, provides a compilation
of over 5500 terms, organizations and acronyms, drawn from hundreds of official...
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Published 24th March 2009 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-1-84407-751-9
Digital Technologies for Democratic Governance
in Latin America
Opportunities and Risks
Edited by Anita Breuer, Yanina Welp
This book is the first to comprehensively analyse the political and societal impacts of
new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a region of the Global
South. It evaluates under what conditions some Latin American governments and
people...
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To Be Published 8th January 2014 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-83613-5
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The European Union
By Clive Archer
Making often complex concepts easily comprehended, this book enables the reader to
quickly build a solid and well-rounded understanding of the EU's history and present,
covering: key debates on Europe the ambiguous relationship with the...
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Published 24th January 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-37011-0
European Union: The Basics
2nd Edition
By Alex Warleigh-Lack
Fully updated to include the new Treaty of Lisbon, this is the best short and accessible
introduction to the politics of the European Union, written by one of the world's most
well-known authorities in the area. Ideal starting reading for...
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Published 23rd September 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-41467-8
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Exploring Distance in Leader-Follower
Relationships
When Near is Far and Far is Near
Edited by Michelle C. Bligh, Ronald E. Riggio
Leaders face new challenges as they cope with changes in culture, technology and the
workplace. In this edited volume, based on a conference at Claremont, scholars of
leadership studies from three continents discuss the latest psychological research on...
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Published 26th July 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-1-84872-602-4
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Feminist Strategies in International Governance
Edited by Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl, Susanne Zwingel
The struggle for women’s rights and to overcome gender oppression has long
engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the...
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Published 10th December 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-50905-3
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Feminist Theory Reader
Local and Global Perspectives, 3rd Edition
Edited by Carole Mccann, Seung-kyung Kim
The third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical
and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework.
This edition includes 16 new essays; the editors have organized the readings into...
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Published 26th February 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-52101-7
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The Forum on China- Africa Cooperation
(FOCAC)
By Ian Taylor
The increase in China’s economic and political involvement in Africa is arguably
the most momentous development on the continent since the end of the Cold War. This
book seeks to detail the origins, structure, workings and activities of The...
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Published 16th April 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-62851-8
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Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United
Nations
Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945
By Hannibal Travis
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related
crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires
and indigenous or stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the...
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Published 12th December 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-53125-2
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Geographies of Privilege
Edited by France Winddance Twine, Bradley Gardener
How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and
transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial
resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure,...
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Published 29th January 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-51962-5
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Global Environmental Institutions
By Elizabeth R. DeSombre
There has been a concurrent growth in interest in the institutions that deal with global
environmental issues. A vast number of international organizations address these
matters; this volume provides an overview of the major global institutions...
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Published 14th September 2006 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-35895-8
Global Food and Agricultural Institutions
By D. John Shaw
This pioneering text brings together for the first time the global institutions on the front
line of the campaign against hunger and poverty. The institutions examined in this book
– the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the...
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Published 10th October 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-44504-7
Global Governance of Genetic Resources
Access and Benefit Sharing after the Nagoya Protocol
Edited by Sebastian Oberthür, G. Rosendal
This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access
Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010’s Nagoya Protocol to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD’s initial 1992 framework of...
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To Be Published 11th October 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-65625-2
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Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality
Edited by Rorden Wilkinson, Jennifer Clapp
A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which
combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and
poverty in the world’s poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound...
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Published 10th May 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-78049-0
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Global Health Governance
By Sophie Harman
In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the
issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and
practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics...
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Published 13th December 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-56158-7
Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Responding to an International Crisis
By Franklyn Lisk
Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis
of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the
different global institutions involved. The text highlights HIV/AIDS as an...
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Published 8th September 2009 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-44497-2
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Global Institutions of Religion
Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers
By Katherine Marshall
This work fills a significant gap in the current literature by providing a concise
introduction to religious institutions and an insightful analysis of their role in world
affairs. Focusing on formal institutions specifically dedicated to governing...
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Published 25th February 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-78045-2
Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
From Words to Deeds
By Alex J. Bellamy
This book provides an in-depth introduction to, and analysis of, the issues relating to the
implementation of the recent Responsibility to Protect principle in international
relationsThe Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has come a long way in a short...
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Published 7th December 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-56736-7
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Routledge Handbook of International
Organization
Edited by Bob Reinalda
This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with
regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as
institutions. Although the focus is on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs),...
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Published 28th May 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-50143-9
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The World Health Organization (WHO)
By Kelley Lee
The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agency for
health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation for over sixty years.
With origins dating from the nineteenth century, WHO’s mandate is the...
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Published 21st August 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-37013-4
The World Bank
From Reconstruction to Development to Equity
By Katherine Marshall
The World Bank is one of the most important and least understood major international
institutions. This book provides a concise, accessible and comprehensive overview of
the World Bank's history, development, structure, functionality and...
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Published 31st January 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-38132-1
Women as Political Leaders
Studies in Gender and Governing
Edited by Michael A. Genovese, Janie S. Steckenrider
Over the past several years, the fields of Leadership Studies and of Women's Studies
have grown tremendously. This book, which is a series of case studies of women who
have headed governments across the globe, will discuss the conditions and...
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Published 12th March 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-1-84872-992-6
UN Security Council
Practice and Promise
By Edward C. Luck
Written by best-selling author Edward C. Luck, this new text is broad and engaging
enough for undergraduates, sophisticated enough for graduates and lively enough for a
wider audience interested in the key institutions of international public...
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Published 7th September 2006 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-35531-5
The UN Secretary-General and Secretariat
2nd Edition
By Leon Gordenker
The new edition of this accessible introduction to the important role of the United
Nations Secretary-General continues to offer a keen insight into the United Nations
– the Secretariat and its head, the Secretary-General, summing up the...
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Published 1st February 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77841-1
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The UN Human Rights Council
By Bertrand Ramcharan
The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important
organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the
foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the
Commission on...
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Published 20th September 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-58399-2
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Creating Norms for a Complex World
By J.P. Singh
This book traces the history of UNESCO from its foundational idealism to its current
stature as the preeminent international organization for science, education, and culture,
building a well rounded understanding of this important organization.The book:...
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Published 26th November 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-49114-3
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The United Nations and Human Rights
A Guide for a New Era, 2nd Edition
By Julie Mertus
Julie Mertus’ highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-todate comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system.
Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to...
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Published 30th April 2009 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-49140-2
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Trade, Poverty, Development
Getting Beyond the WTO's Doha Deadlock
Edited by Rorden Wilkinson, James Scott
This work seeks to look beyond the seemingly endless deadlock in the WTO’s
Doha round of trade negotiations that began in November 2001 and were first
scheduled to conclude by January 1, 2005. As well as offering an incisive analysis of
the...
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Published 2nd August 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-62450-3
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Sustainability for Healthcare Management
A Leadership Imperative
By Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, Seema S. Wadhwa
Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy
values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our
decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health...
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Published 13th February 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-53036-1
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State of the World's Cities 2012/2013
Prosperity of Cities
By Un Habitat
The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction
of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions,
aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized,...
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Published 18th March 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-83888-7
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Statebuilding and State-Formation
The Political Sociology of Intervention
Edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the
possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding.Using process-oriented
approaches, the contributing authors explore what happens when conscious...
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Published 17th February 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-67697-7
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Stabilization Operations, Security and
Development
States of Fragility
Edited by Robert Muggah
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in
international relations.The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has
been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Covering the wider picture, this volume...
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To Be Published 25th July 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-53676-9
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Sport Policy and Governance
By Neil King
Sport Policy and Governance: Local Perspectives is the first detailed study of the
politics of sport policy at the local authority level of governance. In focusing on the local
level, the book recognises that the extent to which we benefit from public...
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Published 25th February 2009 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-7506-8547-4
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Snapshots of Great Leadership
By Jon P. Howell
This is a great book describing leaders (both good and bad) who either have
accomplished amazing feats or who brought destruction or death to scores of people.
Although the goals of these individuals were often quite different, the leadership
processes...
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Published 6th August 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-87217-1
Global South to the Rescue
Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing
Rescue Industries
Edited by Paul Amar
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order
– the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in
peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military...
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Published 4th July 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-57795-3
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Global Think Tanks
Policy Networks and Governance
By James McGann, Richard Sabatini
Global Think Tanks provides a clear description of and context for the global
proliferation of think tanks. Whilst these institutions are still relatively new players in
global and national politics, they are becoming a significant source of strength in...
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Published 3rd December 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77979-1
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Governance for Pro-Poor Urban Development
Lessons from Ghana
By Franklin Obeng-Odoom
The world development institutions commonly present 'urban governance' as an
antidote for the so-called ‘urbanisation of poverty’ and ‘parasitic
urbanism’ in Africa. This book is the first...
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To Be Published 14th July 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-83376-9
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Governance Reform in Africa
International and Domestic Pressures and CounterPressures
By Jerome Bachelard
Poor governance is increasingly recognized as the greatest impediment to economic
development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, some impressive governance reforms
are under way in many countries. This includes cases such as Nigeria –
formerly...
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To Be Published 30th January 2014 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-71345-0
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Governing Climate Change
By Harriet Bulkeley, Peter Newell
Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate
change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and
market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities.The issue of...
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Published 24th February 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-46769-8
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The Group of Twenty (G20)
By Andrew F. Cooper, Ramesh Thakur
This work offers a concise examination of the purpose, function and practice of the
Group of Twenty (G20) summit. Providing a comprehensive historical account of the
G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors process, the text then moves on
to...
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Published 14th December 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-78089-6
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Health and Human Rights in a Changing World
3rd Edition
Edited by Michael Grodin, Daniel Tarantola, George Annas, Sofia Gruskin
Health and Human Rights in a Changing World is a comprehensive and contemporary
collection of readings and original material examining health and human rights from a
global perspective. Editors Grodin, Tarantola, Annas, and Gruskin are well-known for...
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Published 22nd March 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-50399-0
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Heroic Leadership
An Influence Taxonomy of 100 Exceptional Individuals
By Scott T. Allison, George R. Goethals
Heroic Leadership is a celebration of our greatest heroes, from legends such as
Mahatma Gandhi to the legions of unsung heroes who transform our world quietly
behind the scenes. The authors argue that all great heroes are also great leaders. The
term...
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Published 8th March 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-62852-5
Humanitarianism Contested
Where Angels Fear to Tread
By Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss
This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and
insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its
origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical...
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Published 18th February 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-49664-3
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Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms,
Strategic Framing, and Intervention
Lessons for the Responsibility to Protect
By Melissa Labonte
The human rights and humanitarian landscape of the modern era has been littered with
acts that have shocked the moral conscience of mankind, and there has been wide
variation in whether, how, and to what degree states respond to mass atrocity crimes,...
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Published 18th December 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-62160-1
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Human Trafficking
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
By Mary C. Burke
The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not
new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the
past 60 years have changed how and why this human rights abuse occurs. In...
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Published 9th April 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-89225-4
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The Idea of World Government
From ancient times to the twenty-first century
By James A. Yunker
The notion of a single political organization encompassing the whole of
humanity—a world state—has intrigued mankind since earliest recorded
history. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the history of
world...
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Published 4th February 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-78163-3
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Improving Global Environmental Governance
Best Practices for Architecture and Agency
Edited by Norichika Kanie, Steinar Andresen, Peter M. Haas
The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global
Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and
embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters
look at...
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To Be Published 3rd October 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-81176-7
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Institutions of the Asia-Pacific
ASEAN, APEC and beyond
By Mark Beeson
The Asia-Pacific is arguably the most important, but also the most complex and
contested, region on the planet. Containing three of the world’s largest
economies and some of its most important strategic relationships, the region’s...
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Published 12th August 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-46504-5
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Institutions of the Global South
By Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner
While clearly assessing the achievements, performance and responses of major global
south institutions to global change, Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner shows how and
why such arrangements are critical in the South’s efforts to call the...
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Published 30th September 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-36591-8
International Environmental Governance Set
By Various
Together, these 18 volumes provide unparalleled coverage of the development of
international environmental governance from the 1980's to today. In the last two
decades, environmental threats and the challenge of sustainability have moved to...
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Published 1st October 2009 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-1-84407-984-1
International Relations: The Basics
By Peter Sutch, Juanita Elias
International Relations is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to
international relations and for the general reader. It offers the most up-to-date guide to
the major issues and areas of debate and:explains key issues including...
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Published 24th May 2007 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-31185-4
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International Relations: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
By Steven C. Roach, Martin Griffiths, Terry O'Callaghan
Featuring over twenty new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in
its second edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs.
Comprehensive and up-to-date, it introduces the most important themes in...
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Published 31st October 2007 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77437-6
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Sports Governance, Development and Corporate
Responsibility
Edited by Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart
Vanreusel
The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is
reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sportrelated social interventions in different cultural settings, such as...
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Published 6th June 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-52249-6
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The South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC)
An emerging collaboration architecture
By Lawrence Saez
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an international
organization comprised of the eight countries in South Asia. This work aims examine
the institutional structure, objectives and effectiveness of the SAARC in its role as...
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Published 30th November 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-83124-6
Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe
Edited by Margaret Groeneveld, Barrie Houlihan, Fabien Ohl
Although there is significant interest in the social role of sport in fostering civil society
from both policymakers and academics, there is a lack of evidence of the specific role
of sport federations in this system. This book critically presents the...
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Published 5th September 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-81141-5
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Shaping the Humanitarian World
By Peter Walker, Daniel G. Maxwell
Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics,
tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how
the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises...
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Published 17th November 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77371-3
The Security Governance of Regional
Organizations
Edited by Emil J. Kirchner, Roberto Dominguez
The Security Governance of Regional Organizations assesses the effectiveness of
regional organizations as regional or global security providers, and examines how
policy preferences, resources, capabilities, institutional mechanisms and economic
and...
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Published 19th October 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-78235-7
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Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal
Court
Committing to the Court
By Yvonne Dutton
In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement
mechanism influences state membership and the court’s ability to realize treaty
goals, examining questions such as:Why did states decide to create the ICC and...
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Published 9th May 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-65810-2
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The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility
to Protect
Edited by W. Andy Knight, Frazer Egerton
This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect
norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians. The
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is amongst the most significant norms in global politics...
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Published 19th June 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-60075-0
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Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding
Edited by Roger Mac Ginty
This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the
meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cuttingedge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term...
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Published 22nd January 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-69019-5
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Routledge Handbook of International
Statebuilding
Edited by David Chandler, Timothy D. Sisk
This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical
analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. Over the
past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and...
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Published 20th March 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-67702-8
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Routledge Handbook of International Law
Edited by David Armstrong
The Routledge Handbook of International Law provides a definitive global survey of the
interaction of international politics and international law. Each chapter is written by a
leading expert and provides a state of the art overview of the most...
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Published 18th January 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-61052-0
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Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and
Statecraft
Edited by B.J.C. McKercher
Despite post-Cold War arguments about their demise, ‘Great Powers’ not
only continue to thrive, with lesser Powers they form the basis of the constellation of
global politics. This topical new Handbook illustrates how and why the new...
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Published 4th November 2011 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-78110-7
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The Roads from Rio
Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral
Environmental Negotiations
Edited by Pamela Chasek, Lynn M. Wagner
At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly
known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new
"sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally
sound...
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Published 27th February 2012 by RFF Press
Paperback: 978-0-415-80977-1
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Risk Governance
Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
By Ortwin Renn
'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk
researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in
risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance...
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Published 30th May 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-1-84407-292-7
Responsibility to Protect
Cultural Perspectives in the Global South
Edited by Rama Mani, Thomas G. Weiss
This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the
Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in
2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade. This work seeks
to...
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Published 8th September 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-78185-5
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Regional Security
The Capacity of International Organizations
By Rodrigo Tavares
Regional organizations are an inescapable feature of global politics. Virtually all
countries in the world are members of at least one regional or other intergovernmental
organization. The involvement of international organizations in the realm of...
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Published 9th July 2009 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-48341-4
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Preventive Human Rights Strategies
By Bertrand G. Ramcharan
The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection
strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly
identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by...
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Published 1st February 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-54856-4
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Poverty Capital
Microfinance and the Making of Development
By Ananya Roy
Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award!This is a book about poverty but it does not
study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It
sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of...
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Published 3rd March 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-87673-5
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Political Economy of Statebuilding
Power after Peace
Edited by Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum
This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding
interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20
years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from
periods...
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Published 16th October 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-60478-9
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Peacebuilding
From Concept to Commission
By Robert Jenkins
The emergence of The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2005 was
the culmination of a long and contentious process. In this work Rob Jenkins provides a
concise introduction that traces the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a...
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Published 13th December 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77644-8
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Only One Earth
The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
By Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss, Maurice F. Strong
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in
Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in
2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved
in the...
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Published 24th May 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-54025-4
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The No-Growth Imperative
Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological
Limits to Growth
By Gabor Zovanyi
More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the
human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such
limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through...
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Published 28th November 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-63015-3
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Enduring Alliance
By Julian Lindley-French
This book is an excellent introduction to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Julian Lindley-French clearly outlines all of the institution's key facets to deliver an
authoritative account. Detailing the origins, institutions,...
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Published 23rd November 2006 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-35880-4
Non-Governmental Organizations in World
Politics
The Construction of Global Governance
By Peter Willetts
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Amnesty International and Oxfam to
Greenpeace and Save the Children are now key players in global politics. This
accessible and informative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the
significant role and...
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Published 15th December 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-38125-3
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Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations
Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community
By Vrushali Patil
Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book
explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power
relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 19461960...
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Published 21st March 2013 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-54179-4
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Multilateral Counter-Terrorism
The global politics of cooperation and contestation
By Peter Romaniuk
Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response. In this
book Peter Romaniuk aims to assess to what extent states seek multilateral responses
to the threats they face from terrorists. Providing a concise history and a clear...
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Published 12th March 2010 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77648-6
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The Migration Industry and the
Commercialization of International Migration
Edited by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen
Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new
business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants’
desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the...
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Published 5th December 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-62379-7
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Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding
Peace from the Ashes of War?
Edited by Mikael Eriksson, Roland Kostić
This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical
assumptions, empirical applications and its consequences. Despite the wealth of
research on external interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding, many...
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Published 4th February 2013 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-63835-7
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Leading the Sustainable Organization
Development, Implementation and Assessment
By Tim Galpin, J. Lee Whittington, Greg Bell
This book is the first to combine the much talked about topics of leadership and
sustainability, and provides readers with a comprehensive overview and pragmatic
approach to leading sustainable organizations.Chapters include discussions, case
examples,...
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Published 7th March 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-69783-5
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International Organizations as Self-Directed
Actors
A Framework for Analysis
Edited by Joel Oestreich
This exciting new text illustrates and advances the argument that International
Organizations (IOs) need to be taken seriously as actors in world affairs. Bringing
together an international line-up of distinguished contributors, the text examines
recent...
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Published 3rd April 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-78291-3
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The International Community and Statebuilding
Getting Its Act Together?
Edited by Patrice McMahon, Jon Western
This book brings together policymakers and academics to analyse the international
community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. In the past twenty
years, statebuilding has emerged as a centerpiece of international efforts to...
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Published 27th January 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-69539-8
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International Human Rights
A Comprehensive Introduction
By Michael Haas
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to international human rights:
international human rights law, why international human rights have increasingly risen
to world prominence, what is being done about violations of human rights, and what
might...
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Published 10th January 2008 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77455-0
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International Law, International Relations and
Global Governance
By Charlotte Ku
International Relations and International Law have developed in parallel but distinctly
throughout the 20th Century. However in recent years there has been recognition that
their shared concerns in areas as diverse as the environment, transnational crime...
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Published 22nd February 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-77873-2
The International Trade Centre
Export Impact for Good
By Stephen Browne, Sam Laird
In the era of rapid globalization, the ITC plays a significant and wide ranging role
working with both governments and trade support institutions to nurture an export
culture, this work will provide a much needed overview of this dynamic...
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Published 4th April 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-58402-9
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Leadership and Policy Innovation – From Clinton
to Bush
Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction
By Joseph R. Cerami
Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and
defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and
international...
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Published 17th August 2012 by Routledge
Hardback: 978-0-415-52782-8
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Leading For Regeneration
Going Beyond Sustainability in Business Education, and
Community
By John Hardman
This book presents the regenerative leadership framework that has emerged from
doctoral research and consulting work with successful sustainability leaders and their
organizations in business, education, and community. The framework synthesizes the...
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Published 11th October 2011 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-69245-8
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The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Global Development after 2015
Edited by Rorden Wilkinson, David Hulme
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty
and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their
"invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all...
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Published 24th July 2012 by Routledge
Paperback: 978-0-415-62164-9
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