International Organisation in World Politics: 7 (The Making of the Twentieth Century)

by David Armstrong (Author), David Armstrong (Author), Lorna Lloyd (Contributor), David Armstrong (Author), Lorna Lloyd (Contributor), John Redmond (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.61

  Since the end of the Cold War, international organisations have assumed a greater importance on the world stage. The United Nations has played a key role in all of the major security issues during this period - increasingly called upon to address other global problems such as poverty and international crime - while the European Union has created a single currency and moved towards the adoption of a constitution. The growing significance of the World Trade Organisation and other economic institutions has led some to talk of the emergence of a structure of global governance; and international non-governmental organisations and social movements are now widely seen as forming a kind of global civil society that both challenges and participates in these developments.
  
  Building on the success of the previous edition (Versailles to Maastricht: International Organisation in the Twentieth Century), this book is a valuable introduction to the complex history of modern international organisation. David Armstrong, Lorna Lloyd and John Redmond:
  
  - pay close attention to the League of Nations, the UN and the EU
  - offer chapters on the new regionalism, global governance and international regimes and global civil society
  - adopt a thematic and analytical approach to the subject
  - provide a concise factual account of the rise of the international organisation

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  Paperback
  2004

  $63.88

  Since the end of the Cold War, international organisations have assumed a greater importance on the world stage. The United Nations has played a key role in all of the major security issues during this period - increasingly called upon to address other global problems such as poverty and international crime - while the European Union has created a single currency and moved towards the adoption of a constitution. The growing significance of the World Trade Organisation and other economic institutions has led some to talk of the emergence of a structure of global governance; and international non-governmental organisations and social movements are now widely seen as forming a kind of global civil society that both challenges and participates in these developments.
  
  Building on the success of the previous edition (Versailles to Maastricht: International Organisation in the Twentieth Century), this book is a valuable introduction to the complex history of modern international organisation. David Armstrong, Lorna Lloyd and John Redmond:
  
  - pay close attention to the League of Nations, the UN and the EU
  - offer chapters on the new regionalism, global governance and international regimes and global civil society
  - adopt a thematic and analytical approach to the subject
  - provide a concise factual account of the rise of the international organisation