Product Description: Kirton offers a comprehensive, systematic examination of China’s G20 approach, diplomacy and influence since the G20’s start as a forum for finance ministers and central bankers in 1999. This comprehensive reference tool works its way through China’s elevation to the leaders’ level with summits from 2008-2014, to the prospects for its Antalya Summit in November 2014 and above all China’s first summit as host in Hangzhou in the autumn of 2016...read more

Product Description: This book offers the most thorough, detailed inside story of the preparation, negotiation, performance, and achievements of G20 gatherings from their start at the finance level in 1999 through their rise to become leader-level summits in response to the great global financial crisis in 2008...read more

Product Description: For over half a millennium global law has been central to the practice and analysis of international relations. How has the use of global law shaped international relations of the past and present and how will it shape the future? This work assembles the key articles that have defined the scholarly field of global law to explore customs, treaties and international institutions, the roles they have played in international relations and the effect they have had and will continue to have in the international system...read more

Product Description: This series probes the theory and practice of global governance from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Many argue that increasing movements of people, capital and information are only possible with efficient institutional arrangements...read more

Product Description: The topic of international finance is of increasing interest in international relations, especially in our twenty-first century globalizing world. This collection provides information and perspectives on international finance of the past, present and future...read more

Product Description: In recent years, especially since the end of the cold war, the field of global health has become increasingly linked with and central to the more traditional concerns of international relations. The spread of communicable diseases, the challenge of migrating health workers and the development of new technologies and medicines have all contributed to the ever-expanding issue of global health...read more

Product Description: Trade has long been a core part of international relations. Bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral trade flows and agreements have arisen in many ways and in many areas over the centuries. From regional arrangements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, to the all-encompassing General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades and now the World Trade Organization, the system of global trade has seen struggles and successes alike...read more

Product Description: For well over a century, international organizations have been central to the study and practice of international relations and global governance. But how much and how do they help, hinder or otherwise alter the behaviour of the actors who utilize them and provide public goals for the global community as a whole? By assembling the leading works that have defined the scholarly field of international organization from realist, liberal institutionalists, constructivists and political economy traditions, this work examines the many organizations which have formed, in ever-expanding numbers and fields, over the years, the degree to which they have succeeded and their future potential...read more

Product Description: Analyzing twenty-first century innovations in global health governance, this volume addresses questions of pandemics, essential medicines and disease eradication through detailed case studies of critical and rapidly spreading infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and SARS and 'lifestyle' illnesses such as tobacco-related illnesses, all of which are at the centre of the current global health challenge...read more

Product Description: Recently global health issues have leapt to the forefront of the international agenda and are now an everyday concern around the world. The war for global health is clearly being lost on many fronts and the massive body count is mounting fast...read more

Product Description: How can civil society and global governors come together in new ways to improve links among trade, environmental and social values? In this important and wide-ranging volume, an unparalleled array of contributors examine the many new processes of civil society engagement that have been introduced at the local, regional and global levels...read more

Product Description: On its 30th anniversary in 2004 responsibility for hosting the G8 Summit fell into the hands of an allegedly unilateralist America. An America still reeling from the shock of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the resulting economic recession, bitter divisions with its NATO allies and disappointment with the United Nations Institutions over the 2003 Iraq war...read more

Product Description: This innovative and forward looking work examines the Genoa summit agenda with a view to strengthening international conflict prevention institutions and identifying and analyzing economic early warning indicators. It devotes particular attention to the Italian contribution and approach and the ways in which it can be effectively implemented following the summit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sustaining Global Growth and Development focuses on the new challenges for sustaining growth in the twenty-first century and the role of the G7 and IMF in meeting these challenges amidst the new processes of regionalism now emerging...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focused on politics and security, this volume extends the G8 and Global Governance series into the domain of international security in both its classic and newer forms. Going beyond the conventional focus on globalization, it takes up the central question of shaping international order, looking at the emergence of several important phenomena including: - The advent of human security - The global importance of once deeply domestic security issues - Enhanced demands for civil society participation Sections on Japan's perspective on the G8 and international order, critical issues in global security governance and the role of international institutions and American leadership therein, make this a distinctive account of international security in the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume critically assesses in turn: the elements and adequacy of recent G7-led efforts at international financial reform; the current causes of and prospects for growth in the "new" global economy; the current challenges of crisis prevention, private sector participation, and IFI responsibilities; and the fundamental issue of the world's monetary supply and sovereignty in the face of market forces...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on the central issues of the contemporary trade-environment-social cohesion debate, this book analyzes the social and environmental impacts of existing trade liberalization through the World Trade Organization (WTO), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other key regimes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume takes as its starting point the changing international economic order as a whole and the efforts by a wide range of actors to determine the content and impact of the G8's agenda. It gives central attention to finance, but also looks at the international trade system and the digital economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Kirton, Joseph Daniels and Andreas Freytag present a collection of papers which examine both the professional economic merits, and the underlying politics, of the hotly contested competing initiatives for strengthening the international financial system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An examination of the professional economic merits, practical feasibility, and underlying politics of the hotly contested competing initiatives for strengthening the international financial system. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom, it offers a comprehensive account of the traditional enduring financial issues facing the G7 and the fundamental architectural elements of the new systemic design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: International agreements and environmental regulations are important constraints in today's business context. By analyzing development and case studies within NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the authors demonstrate how firms can develop strategies which utilize international trade and environment regimes to open up international markets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of papers from two conferences on the role of the G8 provides a critical, scholarly assessment of the G's prospects in addressing challenges of the post Cold War world of globalization and deepening integration. The text explores and challenges the logic of contemporary critics to offer improved explanations of the circumstances under which G7/G8 is effective in addressing its traditional agenda, the new financial challenges of the modern era, and the broader once domestic issues of employability and crime that now occupy a central place on the international agenda...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)