Graeme W. Austin & Laurence R. Helfer 
Human Rights and Intellectual Property [PDF ebook] 
Mapping the Global Interface

Japan and Asia Pacific Integration is a study of regional integration in the greater Pacific area during 1968-1996. It examines the political rationale of such international organisations as the Asia …

This book examines Europeanization in the European Economic Area (EEA), exploring whether non-member states can have an input into EU decision-making and whether the EU can successfully export its po …

When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal `paradigm” for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then, however, significant developments have …

The European Union is a key participant in international organisations with its involvement taking different forms, ranging from full membership to mere observer. Moreover, there is also not only one …

Creative Participation presents the theory and practice of new innovative forms of political participation. Examples covered in the book include consumers engaging in political shopping, capitalists …

Over the last decade the ‘transition paradigm’, which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serio …

This impressive book tracks the progress of twelve countries on five continents in moving resources from defense to civilian activity in the 1990”s. Based on intensive field research, thanks to its …

On January 1 1995, Austria and Sweden joined the European Union (EU). This book examines why these two countries joined at such a moment and studies their accession against the structural background …

This ground-breaking volume provides a new perspective on the EU’s foreign policy and offers a reconstruction of EU research that extends beyond narrow-minded concepts of ‘power’ and ‘actorness’. Foc …

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 …