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Global Governance and Rules for the Post-2015 Era
Addressing Emerging Issues in the Global Environment
Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international...
Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international...
Poor Poverty
The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s...
This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s...
Securing Peace
State-building and Economic Development in Post-conflict Countries
This book studies the processes which lead to the explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for...
This book studies the processes which lead to the explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for...
Financing for Overcoming Economic Insecurity
Despite the rise in recent decades in the average income level, economic insecurity has also increased. True for both developing and developed countries, this increasing economic insecurity is harmful...
Despite the rise in recent decades in the average income level, economic insecurity has also increased. True for both developing and developed countries, this increasing economic insecurity is harmful...
Technical Problems in the Verification of a Ban on Space Weapons
This publication discusses the potential uses of space-based weapons against air and ground targets; military and civilian activities; verification means available; the establishment and verification...
This publication discusses the potential uses of space-based weapons against air and ground targets; military and civilian activities; verification means available; the establishment and verification...
Index to the Chemical Weapons Convention
This index serves as a quick means to find paragraphs in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an elaborate and complex multilateral disarmament treaty. Scholars, diplomats, scientists, politicians...
This index serves as a quick means to find paragraphs in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an elaborate and complex multilateral disarmament treaty. Scholars, diplomats, scientists, politicians...
Migration and Population Change in Europe
Europe is experiencing a dramatic population change. This publication explains the demographic trends and structures causing this phenomenon. It identifies who are migrating, to where they are...
Europe is experiencing a dramatic population change. This publication explains the demographic trends and structures causing this phenomenon. It identifies who are migrating, to where they are...
Crisis in the Balkans
Analyzes the instability and insecurity throughout Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia after the demise of the communist rule. It discusses the history and origins of ethnic friction as well as...
Analyzes the instability and insecurity throughout Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia after the demise of the communist rule. It discusses the history and origins of ethnic friction as well as...
Regional Security and Confidence-building Processes
The Case of Southern Africa
This study looks back into the legacy of colonialism in the ten geographically contiguous countries generally known as Southern Africa, the post-colonial factors of apartheid and destabilization and...
This study looks back into the legacy of colonialism in the ten geographically contiguous countries generally known as Southern Africa, the post-colonial factors of apartheid and destabilization and...
Climate Protection and Development
This book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty...
This book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty...
Globalization and Economic Diversification
Policy Challenges for Economies in Transition
The transition countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia were hit harder than any other region in the world by the global recession of 2008–2009. Economic recovery started in the...
The transition countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia were hit harder than any other region in the world by the global recession of 2008–2009. Economic recovery started in the...
Is Good Governance Good for Development?
Whilst good governance is a worthy goal by itself, this book argues that it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development. Challenging the conventional good governance paradigm favoured by...
Whilst good governance is a worthy goal by itself, this book argues that it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development. Challenging the conventional good governance paradigm favoured by...
Retooling Global Development and Governance
This publication provides a whole new set of ideas on how to overcome the deficiencies in the ongoing process of globalization and in the existing mechanisms for global economic governance. It points...
This publication provides a whole new set of ideas on how to overcome the deficiencies in the ongoing process of globalization and in the existing mechanisms for global economic governance. It points...
Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development, taking as reference the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their...
This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development, taking as reference the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their...
Third Review of the Biological Weapons Convention, The
Issues and Proposals
This research paper deals with the Third Convention as well as the First and Second on issues such as scope of obligations, verification and complaints procedures, confidence-building measures and...
This research paper deals with the Third Convention as well as the First and Second on issues such as scope of obligations, verification and complaints procedures, confidence-building measures and...
Disarmament, Environment, and Development and Their Relevance to the Least Developed Countries
This is a compilation of papers by experts in the fields of disarmament, environment and development. The papers presented include: a comprehensive framework for action; a biospheric perspective...
This is a compilation of papers by experts in the fields of disarmament, environment and development. The papers presented include: a comprehensive framework for action; a biospheric perspective...
Implications of IAEA Inspections Under Security Council Resolutions 687, The
This publication evaluates the first six inspections under resolution 687 and the possible consequences for the safeguards system of the IAEA in Iraq and for the control system of the Treaty on the...
This publication evaluates the first six inspections under resolution 687 and the possible consequences for the safeguards system of the IAEA in Iraq and for the control system of the Treaty on the...
Security Council Resolution 687 of 3 April 1991 in the Gulf Affair
Problems of Restoring and Safeguarding Peace
Resolution 687 adopted on 3 April 1991 by the Security Council, is a veritable legal monument. Its purpose was to put an end to the international conflict stemming from the occupation and annexation...
Resolution 687 adopted on 3 April 1991 by the Security Council, is a veritable legal monument. Its purpose was to put an end to the international conflict stemming from the occupation and annexation...
Non-proliferation Treaty, The
How to Remove the Residual Threats
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in force in 1970 suffers from several weaknesses. This paper discusses the weaknesses that must be overcome to remove the residual threats...
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in force in 1970 suffers from several weaknesses. This paper discusses the weaknesses that must be overcome to remove the residual threats...
Ukraine's Non-nuclear Option
On 14 January 1992, Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's President reiterated that Ukraine has no need for nuclear capable men-of-war. The Ukraine with the third largest nuclear capability in the world...
On 14 January 1992, Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's President reiterated that Ukraine has no need for nuclear capable men-of-war. The Ukraine with the third largest nuclear capability in the world...