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Global Governance Futures by Thomas G Weiss
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.98Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching... -
Humanitarian Intervention by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509507313
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Cote d Ivoire, soldiers have... -
Humanitarian Intervention by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509507320
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.08A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Cote d Ivoire, soldiers have... -
Rethinking Global Governance by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509527236
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.31Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and... -
The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations by Thomas G. Weiss
Booksplease Price: $59.86This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars, analysts,... -
Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey by Thomas G. Weiss
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.66In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although global government as such does not exist, formal and informal... -
International Organization and Global Governance Thomas G. Weiss 9781032210124
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $54.49Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available. Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer... -
The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations by Thomas G. Weiss 9780199560103
Booksplease Price: $47.41This is an authoritative, one-volume, and independent treatment of the UN's sixty-year history written by distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners. Citations and suggested readings contain... -
Humanitarian Challenges And Intervention: Second Edition Thomas G Weiss 9780813367996
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering--one within the institutions that make up the international humanitarian system, the other on the ground in... -
UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice by Thomas G. Weiss
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65"The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices' into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also a story of 73 individual lives, of women and men . ... -
Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences Thomas G. Weiss 9780415770798
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).The crisis of IDPs was first... -
Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? by Thomas G. Weiss 9780745660455
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a... -
Would the World Be Better Without the UN? by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509517251
RRP: $73.85Booksplease Price: $70.68Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN's member states and staff performed... -
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509507436
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $68.76Seven 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... -
Humanitarian Business Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9780745663326
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion... -
Humanitarian Business Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9780745663319
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion... -
Rethinking Global Governance Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9781509527243
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.68Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and... -
The Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy by Thomas G. Weiss
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03'If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today! Instead, I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be read by as... -
The United Nations and Changing World Politics: Revised and Updated with a New Introduction by Thomas G. Weiss
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.83The revised and updated Introduction to this classic text situates the UN in substantially changing world politics, including: The election of the ninth Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres; The... -
Global Environmental Institutions Elizabeth R. DeSombre 9781032456874
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $47.91Global Environmental Institutions provides the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment, describing their creation and... -
Multilateral Development Diplomacy in Unctad: The Lessons of Group Negotiations, 1964-84 by Thomas G. Weiss 9781349081516
Booksplease Price: $53.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349081516Author Thomas G. WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher... -
Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9780745660462
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of... -
Would the World Be Better Without the UN? Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9781509517268
RRP: $22.90Booksplease Price: $21.72Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN's member states and staff performed... -
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9781509507443
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.60Seven 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... -
Thinking about Global Governance: Why People and Ideas Matter Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York, USA) 9780415781930
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.05One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Weiss. Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and... -
The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond: Global Development after 2015 Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK) 9780415621649
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29The 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... -
Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics by Michael Barnett 9780801444869
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $69.34Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is... -
Trade, Poverty, Development: Getting Beyond the WTO's Doha Deadlock by Rorden Wilkinson
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.61This 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... -
The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era Julie A Mertus (American University, USA) 9780415491402
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $46.18Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system. Today, virtually all UN bodies and... -
Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11 by Jane Boulden
Booksplease Price: $29.28How has the United Nations dealt with the question of terrorism before and after September 11? What does it mean that the UN itself has become a target of terrorism? Terrorism and the UN analyzes how... -
Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics by Michael Barnett 9780801473012
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is... -
Human Rights and Humanitarian Diplomacy: Negotiating for Human Rights Protection and Humanitarian Access by Kelly-Kate Pease
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.21Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Pease argues that... -
The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think by Tatiana Carayannis 9780198855859
RRP: $114.81Booksplease Price: $104.98The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the... -
Emerging Powers and the UN: What Kind of Development Partnership? Thomas Weiss (City University of New York, USA) 9781138086548
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43The post-2015 sustainable development goals and the changing environment for development cooperation requires a renewed and transformed UN system. In line with their increasing significance as... -
The 'Third' United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think by Tatiana Carayannis 9780198882688
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $35.95The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the... -
Learning From Somalia: The Lessons Of Armed Humanitarian Intervention by Walter S. Clarke
Booksplease Price: $63.26The U.S.-led intervention in Somalia that began in December 1992 is the most significant instance to date of peacemaking" by the international community. The heady promise of Operation Restore Hope... -
Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread by Michael Barnett
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03This 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... -
What's the Point of International Relations? by Synne L. Dyvik
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57What's the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR's leading... -
UN Ideas That Changed the World by Richard Jolly 9780253221186
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.58Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set past, present, and future international agendas in... -
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond by Peter J. Hoffman 9781442266124
Booksplease Price: $133.40What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and...