Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.
Ramesh Thakur is the Inaugural Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
60 Ebooks by Thomas G. Weiss
Thomas G. Weiss & Ramesh Thakur: Global Governance and the UN
In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although global government as such does not exist, formal and informal instit …
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€9.49
Thomas G. Weiss: What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix it
Six decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related agencies and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth century’s world wars gave rise to …
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€19.89
Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarian Business
With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by
wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has
reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a …
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€18.99
Thomas G. Weiss: Global Governance
Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a …
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€18.99
Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarian Business
With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by
wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has
reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a …
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€18.99
Thomas G. Weiss: Global Governance
Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a …
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€18.99
Michael Barnett & Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarianism in Question
Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanit …
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€23.99
Peter J. Hoffman & Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarianism, War, and Politics
What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and …
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€45.04
Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarian Intervention
A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Cote d Ivoire, soldiers have …
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€15.99
Thomas G. Weiss: What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to …
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€17.99
Thomas G. Weiss: Would the World Be Better Without the UN?
Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN’s member states and staff performed better? …
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€18.99
Rorden Wilkinson & Thomas G. Weiss: Rethinking Global Governance
Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and …
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€15.99
Margaret Crahan & John Goering: Wars on Terrorism and Iraq
‘If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today! Instead, I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be read by as …
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€30.92
David A. Korn & Thomas G. Weiss: Internal Displacement
This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs). The crisis of IDPs was first …
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€21.15
Michael Barnett & Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarianism in Question
Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is …
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€186.35
Dan Plesch & Thomas Weiss: Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations
The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts.
This book a …
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€57.38
Dan Plesch & Thomas Weiss: Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations
The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts.
This book a …
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€57.38
David A. Korn & Thomas G. Weiss: Internal Displacement
This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The crisis of IDPs was first c …
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€47.42
David A. Korn & Thomas G. Weiss: Internal Displacement
This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The crisis of IDPs was first c …
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€47.42
Margaret Crahan & John Goering: The Wars on Terrorism and Iraq
”If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today! Instead, I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be read by as ma …
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€49.89
Margaret Crahan & John Goering: The Wars on Terrorism and Iraq
”If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today! Instead, I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be read by as ma …
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€49.89
Thomas G. Weiss: Thinking about Global Governance
One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Weiss. Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and …
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€59.88
Thomas G. Weiss: Thinking about Global Governance
One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Weiss. Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and …
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€59.88
Rama Mani & Thomas G. Weiss: Responsibility to Protect
This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate …
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€50.09
Rama Mani & Thomas G. Weiss: Responsibility to Protect
This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate …
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€49.80
Michael Barnett & Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarianism Contested
This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth …
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€49.74
Michael Barnett & Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarianism Contested
This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth …
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€50.25
Pallavi (SOAS, University of London, UK) Roy & Thomas G. (City University of New York, USA) Weiss: The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015
There is a woeful neglect of the current United Nations in the academic and policy literatures, and so it is unsurprising that an examination of that multilateral structure before 1945 shows an even …
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€54.72
Pallavi (SOAS, University of London, UK) Roy & Thomas G. (City University of New York, USA) Weiss: The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015
There is a woeful neglect of the current United Nations in the academic and policy literatures, and so it is unsurprising that an examination of that multilateral structure before 1945 shows an even …
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€54.72
Monica Serrano & Thomas G. Weiss: The International Politics of Human Rights
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is at a crossroads, the latest in a journey that is only ten years old. This book present debates on the prevention of mass atrocities to R2P’s normative prospects …
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€49.74
Monica Serrano & Thomas G. Weiss: The International Politics of Human Rights
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is at a crossroads, the latest in a journey that is only ten years old. This book present debates on the prevention of mass atrocities to R2P’s normative prospects …
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€49.74
Thomas G. Weiss: Humanitarian Emergencies and Military Help in Africa
This study looks for avenues of collaboration between peacekeepers and humanitarian relief workers. It examines the experiences of past peacekeepers in Africa, such as the UN operation in the Congo, …
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€52.16
Leon Gordenker & Thomas G. Weiss: Soldiers, Peacekeepers and Disasters
The volume examines the past and potential role played by both UN peacekeepers as well as other military forces in the provision of humanitarian aid. There is also an in-depth discussion of the …
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€111.56
Thomas G. Weiss: Beyond UN Subcontracting
Beyond UN Subcontracting sheds light, through a series of post-Cold War case studies, on whether one United Nations’ efforts both to devolve responsibility for security to regional institutions and …
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€27.54
Anthony Jennings & Thomas G. Weiss: Challenge of Development in the Eighties Our Response
The Challenge of Development in the Eighties: Our Response attempts to understand the demands of developing countries in order to render the present world order more equitable and habitable for all. …
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€24.87
Thomas G. Weiss: United Nations and Changing World Politics
This completely revised and updated eighth edition serves as the definitive text for courses in which the United Nations is either the focus or a central component. Built around three critical themes …
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€50.73
Thomas G. Weiss: United Nations and Changing World Politics
This completely revised and updated eighth edition serves as the definitive text for courses in which the United Nations is either the focus or a central component. Built around three critical themes …
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€50.38
Thomas G Weiss: Humanitarian Challenges And Intervention
There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering–one within the institutions that make up the international humanitarian system, the other on the ground in …
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€54.43
Thomas G Weiss: Humanitarian Challenges And Intervention
There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering–one within the institutions that make up the international humanitarian system, the other on the ground in …
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€55.09
David Pitt & Thomas G Weiss: Nature Of United Nations Bureaucracies
This book concentrates on the bureaucratic aspects of the United Nation. It is intended to be educational, and indeed young people are intended to be a special audience. The book attempts to identify …
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€50.25
David Pitt & Thomas G Weiss: Nature Of United Nations Bureaucracies
This book concentrates on the bureaucratic aspects of the United Nation. It is intended to be educational, and indeed young people are intended to be a special audience. The book attempts to identify …
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€50.25
Stephen Browne & Thomas G Weiss: Post-2015 UN Development
In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration included development targets to be reached by 2015, which were to become known as …
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€54.91
Stephen Browne & Thomas G Weiss: Post-2015 UN Development
In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration included development targets to be reached by 2015, which were to become known as …
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€54.91
Thomas G Weiss: Governing the World?
Problems posed by Syria s chemical weapons attacks, Egypt s ouster of an elected government, and myriad other global dilemmas beg the question of whether and how the world can be governed. The …
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€47.40
Thomas G Weiss: Governing the World?
Problems posed by Syria s chemical weapons attacks, Egypt s ouster of an elected government, and myriad other global dilemmas beg the question of whether and how the world can be governed. The …
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€47.40
Adriana (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Abdenur & Thomas (City University of New York, USA) Weiss: Emerging Powers and the UN
The post-2015 goals and the changing environment of development cooperation will demand a renewed and strengthened UN development system. In line with their increasing significance as economic powers …
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€41.10
Adriana (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Abdenur & Thomas (City University of New York, USA) Weiss: Emerging Powers and the UN
The post-2015 goals and the changing environment of development cooperation will demand a renewed and strengthened UN development system. In line with their increasing significance as economic powers …
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€41.10
Stephen Browne & Thomas G Weiss: Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development
International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN’s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an …
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€56.08
Stephen Browne & Thomas G Weiss: Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development
International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN’s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an …
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€56.26
Thomas G Weiss & Rorden (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.) Wilkinson: Global Governance Futures
Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching t …
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€41.16
Thomas G Weiss & Rorden (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.) Wilkinson: Global Governance Futures
Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching t …
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€41.16
Tatiana Carayannis & Thomas G. Weiss: "Third" United Nations
The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the …
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€28.52
Tatiana Carayannis & Thomas G. Weiss: "Third" United Nations
The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the …
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€28.72
Robert I. Rotberg & Thomas G. Weiss: From Massacres to Genocide
Human suffering on a large scale is a continuing threat to world peace. Several dozen gruesome civil wars disturb global order and jar our collective conscience each year. The 50 million people …
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€37.32
Thomas G. Weiss & Rorden Wilkinson: International Organization and Global Governance
Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available. Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer …
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€55.01
Thomas G. Weiss & Rorden Wilkinson: International Organization and Global Governance
Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available. Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer …
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€54.78
Anthony F., Jr. Lang: Just Intervention
What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a conce …
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€26.75
David Hollenbach: Driven from Home
Throughout human history people have been driven from their homes by wars, unjust treatment, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The reality of forced migration is not new, nor is awareness of the suffering …
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€32.97
