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1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) |
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International commissions and the mind of global governance / Andrew Cooper, John English -- The Brandt Commission : the end of an era in North-South politics / Jean-Phillipe Thérien -- The Palme Commission : new thinking about security / Geoffrey Wiseman -- The World Commission on Environment and Development : ideas and institutions intersect / Heather Smith -- Equivocating on the future of world order : the Commission on Global Governance / W. Andy Knight -- Regulating the possession and use of nuclear weapons : ideas, commissions, and agency in international security politics -- the case of the Canberra Commission / Marianne Hanson -- Beyond temples and tombs : towards effective governance for sustainable development through the World Commission on Dams / Sanjeev Khagram -- Fair assessment : the Independent International Commission on Kosovo / Richard Goldstone, Nicole Fritz -- Intervention, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect / Ramesh Thakur -- The responsibility to protect : assessing the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty / Jennifer Welsh, Carolin Thielking, S. Neil MacFarlane -- The responsibility to protect : humanitarian intervention and the principal of non-intervention in the Americas / Jorge Heine -- Ideas, institutions, and the evolution of women's human rights / Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon -- Ideas, think-tanks, commissions, and global politics / Jon Pedersen -- UN reform commissions : is anyone listening? / Edward Luck |
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Only recently has the power of ideas been taken seriously as a form of agency in international relations, say these scholars and practitioners in the profession, and further that recognition by exploring how ideas influence international or independent commissions. Most of the 14 studies focus on specific commissions, while others discuss more gene |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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International agencies.
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International organization.
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International cooperation.
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International Agencies
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International Cooperation
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international organizations.
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LAW -- International.
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International agencies
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International cooperation
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International organization
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Global Governance
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Politische Institution
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Politisches Denken
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Thakur, Ramesh, 1948-
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Cooper, Andrew Fenton, 1950-
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English, John, 1945-
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| ISBN |
1423765958 |
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9781423765950 |
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928081110X |
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9789280811100 |
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9280870882 |
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9789280870886 |
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