Edited by Thomas G. Weiss
The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
and Rorden Wilkinson
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
The “Global Institutions Series” provides cutting-edge books about many aspects of what we know as “global governance.” It emerges fromour shared frustrations with the state of available knowledge-electronic and print-wise, for research and teaching-in the area.The series is designed as a resource for those interested in exploring issues of international organization and global governance. And since the first volumes appeared in 2005, we have taken significant strides toward filling conceptual gaps.
The series consists of three related “streams” distinguished by their blue, red, and green covers. The blue volumes, comprising the majority of the books in the series, provide user-friendly and short (usually no more than 50,000 words) but authoritative guides to major global and regional organizations, as well as key issues in the global governance of security, the environment, human rights, poverty, and humanitarian action among others. The books with red covers are designed to present original research and serve as extended and more specialized treatments of issues pertinent for advancing understanding about global governance. And the volumes with green covers-the most recent departure in the series-are comprehensive and accessible accounts of the major theoretical approaches to global governance and international organization.
The books in each of the streams are written by experts in the field, ranging from the most senior and respected authors to first-rate scholars at the beginning of their careers. In combination, the three components of the series-blue, red, and green-serve as key resources for faculty, students, and practitioners alike. The works in the blue and green streams have value as core and complementary readings in courses on, among other things, international organization, global governance, international law, international relations, and international political economy; the red volumes allow further reflection and investigation in these and related areas.
The books in the series also provide a segue to the foundation volume that offers the most comprehensive textbook treatment available dealing with all the major issues, approaches, institutions, and actors in contemporary global governance-our edited work International Organization and Global Governance (2014)-a volume to which many of the authors in the series have contributed essays.
Understanding global governance-past, present, and future-is far from a finished journey. The books in this series nonetheless represent significant steps toward a better way of conceiving contemporary problems and issues as well as, hopefully, doing something to improve world order. We value the feedback from our readers and their role in helping shape the on-going development of the series.
A complete list of titles appears at the end of this book. The most recent titles in the series are:
UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era (2017)
edited by Cedric de Coning, Chiyuki Aoi, and John Karlsrud
Global Environmental Institutions (2nd edition, 2017)
by Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Global Governance and Transnationalizing Capitalist Hegemony (2017)
by Ian Taylor
Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention (2016)
edited by Elizabeth M. Bruch
Displacement, Development, and Climate Change (2016)
by Nina Hall
UN Security Council Reform (2016)
by Peter Nadin
International Organizations and Military Affairs (2016)
by Hylke Dijkstra
The International Committee of the Red Cross (2nd edition, 2016)
by David P. Forsythe and Barbara Ann J. Rieffer-Flanagan