Michael Byers 
Custom, Power and the Power of Rules [PDF ebook] 
International Relations and Customary International Law

The Routledge Handbook of Korean Politics and Public Administration gathers the expertise of leading international scholars to survey the full spectrum of contemporary South Korean international rela …

At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU”s future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate. Created for reasons quite unconnected with …

Originally published in 1942, the Rural Reconstruction Association had been working on the rural problem in its various aspects for several years. This republished volume represented the conclusions …

You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Russia”s 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russ …

Fighting for Ireland? is the first in-depth account of the evolution of Irish Republican strategy. It is highly topical in the light of the faltering peace process and the growing speculation over th …

It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980s and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to upset the stability of the region. In this innovative new study, …

Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics. …

Beyond Westminster and Whitehall provides the first comprehensive account of the range of sub-central government institutions that are responsible for the delivery of services to citizens. These bodi …

First Published in 1985. The changing face of Western European broadcasting provides a fascinating subject of study for the contemporary observer. In part this is because the structures of different …

That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public management f …