Routledge Global Institutions Series

The "Global Institutions Series" is edited by Thomas G. Weiss (The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA) and Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK) and designed to provide readers with comprehensive, accessible, and informative guides to the history, structure, and activities of key international organizations. Every volume stands on its own as a thorough and insightful treatment of a particular topic, but the series as a whole contributes to a coherent and complementary portrait of the phenomenon of global institutions at the dawn of the millennium.

Books are written by recognized experts, conform to a similar structure, and cover a range of themes and debates common to the series. These areas of shared concern include the general purpose and rationale for organizations, developments over time, membership, structure, decision-making procedures, and key functions. Moreover, current debates are placed in historical perspective alongside informed analysis and critique. Each book also contains an annotated bibliography and guide to electronic information as well as any annexes appropriate to the subject matter at hand.

The volumes currently under contract include:

  • A Guide to the New Human Rights Practices (2005) by Julie Mertus (American University)
  • The UN Secretary-General and Secretariat (2005) by Leon Gordenker (Princeton University)
  • UN Global Conferences (2005) by Michael Schechter (Michigan State University)
  • The UN General Assembly (2005) by MJ Peterson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  • Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and Its Consequences (2006) by Thomas G. Weiss (The CUNY Graduate Center) and David A. Korn
  • The UN Security Council by Edward C. Luck (Columbia University)
  • The International Monetary Fund by James Vreeland (Yale University)
  • Global Environmental Institutions by Beth DeSombre (Wellesley College)
  • The International Labour Organization: Coming in from the Cold by Steve Hughes (University of Newcastle)
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization by Julian Lindley-French (European Union Centre for Security Studies)
  • Group of 7/8 by Hugo Dobson (University of Sheffield)
  • The World Bank: From Reconstruction to Development to Equity by Katherine Marshall (World Bank)
  • The African Union: Past and Future Governance Challenges by Samuel M. Makinda (Murdoch University) and Wafula Okumu (McMaster University)
  • The World Intellectual Property Organization: Resurgence and the Development Agenda by Chris May (University of the West of England)
  • World Economic Forum by Geoffrey Pigman (University of Kent)
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development by Richard Woodward (University of Hull)
  • Non-Governmental Organizations in Global Politics by Peter Willetts (City University, London)
  • Multilateralism in the South: An Analysis by Jacqeline Braveboy-Wagner (City College of New York)
  • The European Union by Clive Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross: A Unique Humanitarian Actor by David Forsythe (University of Nebraska) and Barbara Ann J. Rieffer (Bethany College)
  • The Commonwealth(s) and Global Governance by Timothy Shaw (University of London)
  • A Crisis of Global Institutions? International Security and New Multilateralism by Edward Newman (United Nations University)
  • UN Conference on Trade and Development by Ian Taylor (University of St. Andrews)
  • UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection Into the Twenty First Century by Gil Loescher (University of Oxford), James Milner (University of Oxford), and Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  • The World Health Organization by Kelley Lee (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  • The World Trade Organization by Bernard Hoekman (World Bank) and Petros Mavroidis (Columbia University)
  • The International Organization for Standardization and the Global Economy: Setting Standards by Craig Murphy (Wellesley College) and JoAnne Yates (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

For further information regarding the series, please visit the series page on the Routledge website or contact:

Craig Fowlie, Publisher, Politics & International Studies
Taylor & Francis
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