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Overview of NGOs in international politics -- NGOs and international relations theory -- NGO evolution -- NGO roles in international politics -- NGO relations with states -- NGOs and IGOs -- Case studies -- NGOs and foreign aid -- NGOs and transnational accountability in Bangladesh -- NGOs and international security -- NGOs and human rights : women's rights at the UN -- NGOs and global environmental activism -- Conclusion

The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism. Decolonizing International Relations exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions of colonialism, imperialism, race, slavery, and dispossession in the non-European world. Critical scholars in IR and international law, concerned with the need to decolonize knowledge, have authored

Die größer gewordene internationale Interdependenz hat auch das Konfliktpotential in Bereichen wie Handel, Umwelt, Wettbewerb, aber auch dem der Menschenrechte steigen lassen. In den letzten Jahren sind einige neue internationale Gerichte geschaffen worden, um Konflikte lösen zu helfen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band fragen nach Erfolgsbedingungen dieser Gerichte, aber auch nach der Notwendigkeit weiterer Gerichte.InhaltsübersichtPreface of the Editors – Stefan Voigt: Introduction – Daniel Sutter: The Deterrent Effects of the International Criminal Court – Kai Ambos: Comment – Anne van Aaken: Making International Human Rights Protection More Effective: A Rational-Choice Approach to the Effectiveness of Provisions for Ius Standi – Stefan Oeter: Comment – Eric Neumayer: Do international human rights treaties improve respect for human rights? – Lars P. Feld: Comment – Eric A. Posner: The Decline of the International Court of Justice – Gralf-Peter Calliess: Comment – Tom Ginsburg: International Judicial Lawmaking – Dieter Schmidtchen: Comment – Cesare P.R. Romano: International Courts and Tribunals: Price, Financing and Output – Wolfgang Kerber: Comment – Laurence R. Helfer: Why States Create International Tribunals: A Theory of Constrained Independence – Stefan Voigt: Comment – George Tridimas: The relevance of confederate structures in the judicial architecture of the Draft EU Constitution – Hans-Bernd Schäfer: Comment – Justus Haucap, Florian Müller and Christian Wey: How to Reduce Conflicts Over International Antitrust? – Karl M. Meessen: Comment – Wilfried Hinsch and Markus Stepanians: International Justice and the Problem of Duty Allocation – Max Albert: Comment