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Argues that international affairs are no more complex in the post-cold war era than they were previously, and that the past has been oversimplified.

Chapter 1. Overcoming liberal democracy: 'threat governmentality' and the empowerment of intelligence in the UK Investigatory Powers Act / Christos Boukalas -- Chapter 2. Judicial reform and legal opportunity structure: the emergence of strategic litigation against femicide in Mexico / Vero'nica Michel -- Chapter 3. Avoiding international human rights law in the pursuit of peace / Chris Kendall -- Chapter 4. Criminalization and the rights bearing subject: considering the lived experiences of governance in the juvenile court / Elizabeth Brown and Amy Smith -- Chapter 5. Claiming food sovereignty: legal mobilization in an era of global governance / Matthew C. Canfield -- Chapter 6. How entrapment still matters: partial successes of entrapment claims in terrorism prosecutions / Jesse J. Norris.

Because the American effort to 'integrate' China into the liberal international order has now generated new threats to U.S. primacy in Asia, and could result in a consequential challenge to American power globally, Washington needs a new grand strategy toward China that centers on balancing the rise of Chinese power rather than continuing to assist its ascendancy. The authors argue that such a strategy is designed to limit the dangers that China's geoeconomic and military power pose to U.S. national interests in Asia and globally, even as the United States and its allies maintain diplomatic and economic interactions with China.

This volume addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of, firstly, the broadening definition of security, secondly, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity; and finally, the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transnational periods. The UN has not been successful in learning appropriate lessons that could facilitate requisite changes to its structure and operations. Thus the authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organizations' recent performance in collective security, preventative diplomacy, preventative deployment, peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace maintenance, and international legal, environmental and trade regulation

The fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations was commemorated in 1995 with a number of conferences and publications which assessed the history and contemporary role of this paramount international organisation. This book is the result of a meeting of scholars and specialists who wished to further understanding of the challenges faced by the United Nations in its efforts to intervene in post-cold war conflict. In particular the experiences in Bosnia, Somalia and in Rwanda, where UN peacekeepers seemed powerless to act in the face of acts of genocide, gross violations of human rights and the widespread suffering caused by war, makes such an analysis timely and important

Das Interesse für die chinesische Politik in Osteuropa ist erst vor relativ kurzer Zeit erwacht und auf das zunehmende Handelsvolumen, die Zusammenarbeit bei Investitionen und den Bau verschiedener Infrastrukturprojekte im Rahmen der "Belt and Road Initiative" zurückzuführen. China wird in Belarus als einer der bedeutendsten strategischen Partner und neben Russland und der EU als "dritter wichtiger Player" betrachtet, der geopolitisch das belarussische "Manövrierfeld" erweitert. In der Ansprache von Präsident Lukaschenka 2019 vor der Nationalversammlung wurde China als strategischer Partner und als vorrangiges Objekt der Außenpolitik hervorgehoben, nach dem Unionsstaat von Belarus und Russland und der GUS sowie vor der EU.In diesem Beitrag werden die Beziehungen zwischen Belarus und China durch das Prisma der Minsker Beteiligung an der chinesischen Belt and Road Initiative sowie im Kontext anderer multilateraler Formate in Eurasien und Osteuropa betrachtet. Zudem wird die spezifische Rolle von Belarus in den chinesischen Initiativen beleuchtet.Die Autorin kommt zu dem Schluss, dass sich die Zusammenarbeit von China und Belarus aufgrund der verschlechterten internationalen Position von Belarus auf offizieller Ebene wie auch wegen der angespannten Beziehungen zu Moskau intensiviert hat.

Over the last decade, a call for decolonisation has challenged IR scholarship. The call has advocated for the need to decolonise the epistemology and ontology of the discipline, critically engaging with the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy in global power relations. Parallel to the decolonial project, a call to globalise International Relations has been made by well-known scholars in recent years predominantly through the Global IR project. In this review essay of four books I briefly engage with the debates around Global IR and its critics drawing on a decolonial perspective. On the one hand, I discuss the potentialities and limitations of historiographical deconstruction as a methodological tool, raising issues with the current silencing of the 'present' due to the continued coloniality of knowledge. On the other hand, I delve into the wide range of possibilities that a serious and critical commitment to diversifying the discipline of IR might bring to academics in the so-called non-West/Global South. I analyse current critiques of Global IR considering them necessary though, in some cases, agents for the reification and silencing of the interests of the non-West/Global South. I argue that, whilst coloniality operates in multiple ways, decoloniality is also a project that surpasses the ideal total exteriority as imagined through the West/non-West dichotomy.

The question of whether contact between the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM) & the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) will promote sustainable development on a global level is contemplated. Overviews of the CDM & the MAI are presented. Although the MAI is viewed as supporting the Kyoto Protocol's call of redirecting capital flows to developing nations, it is stated that conflict between the two international agreements is possible. Several such areas of conflict are identified, the MAI maintains jurisdiction over a CDM & has regulations against performance requirements found in the Kyoto Protocol. Additional attention is dedicated to examining how MAI statutes would problematize investment from both CDM & non-CDM parties. Suggestions for resolving such potential disputes are offered. Regardless of whether the MAI is ever adopted, it is concluded that this multilateral agreement has raised several issues that the international climate-control regime must address. 2 Tables. J. W. Parker

Background. Transplant tourism is a phenomenon where patients travel abroad to purchase organs for transplants. This paper presents the results of a fieldwork study by describing the experiences of Dutch transplant professionals confronted by patients who allegedly purchased kidney transplants abroad. Second, it addresses the legal definition and prohibition of transplant tourism under national and international law. The final part addresses the legal implications of transplant tourism for patients and physicians. Methods. The study involved seventeen interviews among transplant physicians, transplant coordinators and policyexperts and a review of national and international legislation that prohibit transplant tourism. Results. All Dutch transplant centers are confronted with patients who undergo transplants abroad. The estimated total number is four per year. Transplant tourism is not explicitly defined under national and international law. While the purchase of organs is almost universally prohibited, transplant tourism is hardly punishable because national laws generally do not apply to crimes committed abroad. Moreover, the purchase of organs (abroad) is almost impossible to prove. Conclusions. Transplant tourism is a legally complex phenomenon that warrants closer research and dialogue. The legal rights and obligations of patients and physicians confronted with transplant tourism should be clarified.

"This book charts the course and causes of UN, G7 and G20 governance of climate change through the crucial period of 2015-2021. It provides a careful, comprehensive and reliable description of the individual and interactive contributions of the G7, G20 and UN summits and analyses their results. The authors explain these contributions and results by considering the impacts of causal candidates, such as a changing physical ecosystem and international political system and the actions of individual leaders of the world's most systemically significant countries. They apply and improve an established, compact causal model, grounded in international relations theory, to guide these tasks. By developing, prescribing and implementing immediate, realistic actionable policy solutions to cope with the urgent, existential challenge of controlling climate change, this volume will appeal to scholars of international relations, global governance and global environmental governance"--