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This publication examines the common concerns of developing countries seeking just and fair growth and at the same time highlights their special regional needs. It addresses the following topics: the...

This publication evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity...

The East Asian region has seen considerable growth in its economy, industrial base, and population in the last two decades. Incidentally, all three of these factors are often linked to over...

In the 1990s the United Nations, the militaries of key member states, and Non-Governmental Organizations became increasingly entangled in the complex affairs of disrupted states. In some situations...

The Globalization of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these questions is conducted through...

In the early 1990s, the world witnessed a growth in regional trade agreements unprecedented in history. This publication looks at the characteristics of recent regional agreements and examines the...

This publication investigates Russian military presence in its former Soviet territory, to determine whether these forces have been genuinely peacekeeping, or are in fact a post-imperial presence that...

A long-term plan for the sustainable use of mangrove ecosystems is urgently needed. Monitoring, research and evaluation are vital components of a successful conservation strategy for mangrove forests...

This title looks at the degree to which recent reforms undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa have enhanced institutional capacities across the breadth of government. It analyzes to what extent reforms...

This publication addresses a number of key issues that would determine the success or failure of sustainable democratization in the countries of the Middle East. Drawing on conceptual and country...

Due to the large disparity in the availability of water between the wet northern region and the drier south parts of Southern Africa, water management has become an issue of critical importance to...

Refugees and displaced people are an example of tension between human and national security. This book explores this tension and connects it to pressing problems involving refugees and forced...

Unprecedented urban growth makes sustainability in cities a crucial issue for policy makers, scholars and business leaders. This emerging urban crisis challenges environment-based and economic-based...

Environmental management regulations have often faced opposition on practical and ideological grounds. Since the 1980s there has been a movement towards liberalization, coupled with the continued...

The Iraq war was a multiple assault on the foundations and rules of the existing UN-centred world order. It called into question the adequacy of the existing institutions for articulating global norms...

The principles, values and manifestations of multilateralism, including the United Nations, are under sustained scrutiny and assault. Their performance and effectiveness are questioned, as are their...

The stated reason for invading Iraq was its alleged clandestine pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in defiance of UN resolutions. Even though the allegation was proven false, the international...

Regional trade agreements are playing a greater role in shaping trade and investment rules around the world. To date the study of preferential agreements has focused on their impact on tariff...

This book examines the obstacles to effective participation, and how they can be overcome to improve both the quality of engagement and the resulting systems of sustainable development governance. The...

With more than a billion people living on less than one dollar per day, human well-being is a core issue for both researchers and policy-makers. This book examines advances in underlying well-being...