Olivier De Schutter 
International Human Rights Law [PDF ebook] 

First Published in 2004. The most striking change in British politics, during the seventies and early eighties, was the undermining and then the end of the post-war British consensus. That consensus …

Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of “globalization“ supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation. Support has also grown for t …

The tide is turning against environmentalism as the political right, industry and governments fight back. Green Backlash is a controversial expose of the anti-environmental movement. Tracing the rise …

The rise of cross-regional trade agreements is a defining trend of the current international trade system as shown by the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2015, the negotiations for …

This title was first published in 2001: This innovative text applies new institutional economics, public choice theory, and new public management concepts to the political arena of the Mexican admini …

The US-led war against Iraq in 2003 represented the most dramatic shake-up of regional politics in the Gulf for more than a decade. This book contains an up-to-date analysis of central questions affe …

Governing Global Derivatives analyzes the role of the most important financial innovation of the last two decades – financial derivatives – in a global dimension. The evolution of derivatives, especi …

The best writing on foreign policy integrates theory and policy in ways that address the principal questions about a country“s place in the world and encourage the reader to think about contemporary …

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democra …

China“s Economic Development and Democratization examines China“s transformation from an institutional perspective. It proposes an analytical framework comprising six macro institutional environmen …