United Nations & UN agencies books

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Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education

Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless...

Author: Rebecca Tarlau (Assistant Professor of Education and Labor and Employment Relations, Assistant Professor of Education and Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780197584347
Format: Paperback
$77.95

Winner of the 2020 ASA Sociology of Development Book AwardWinner of the 2020 APSA Michael Harrington Book Award...  Read More >>

Challenging the United Nations Peace and Security Agenda in Africa

Challenging the United Nations Peace and Security Agenda...

Author: Dawn Nagar
ISBN: 9783030835224
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book concerns the United Nations’ peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction...  Read More >>

Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty

Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of...

Author: Pablo J. Boczkowski (Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9780197565759
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive...  Read More >>

Reflections on a United Nations' Career: An Insider's Account

Reflections on a United Nations' Career: An Insider's...

Author: Ian Howie
ISBN: 9783030770624
Format: Hardback
$64.66

It is in fact, a critical, indispensable debriefing of a UN insider’s account as it follows the life of a development...  Read More >>

Regulating Deep Sea Mining: A Myriad of Legal Frameworks

Regulating Deep Sea Mining: A Myriad of Legal Frameworks...

Author: Klaas Willaert
ISBN: 9783030828332
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book provides a comprehensive analysis and explanation of the legal regime with regard to deep sea mining....  Read More >>

Entangled Peace: UN Peacebuilding and the Limits of a Relational World

Entangled Peace: UN Peacebuilding and the Limits of...

Author: Ignasi Torrent
ISBN: 9781538150764
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This book scrutinises the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding...  Read More >>

Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights

Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International...

Author: Rebecca Adami (Stockholm University, Sweden) ,  Dan Plesch
ISBN: 9780367478230
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment...  Read More >>

International Justice in the United Nations General Assembly

International Justice in the United Nations General...

Author: Michael Ramsden
ISBN: 9781788119375
Format: Hardback
$237.50

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Gathering No Moss: The autobiography of a rolling stone

Gathering No Moss: The autobiography of a rolling stone...

Author: Alan Hall
ISBN: 9780722350867
Format: Hardback
$51.62

Gathering No Moss is the autobiography of a possibly autistic child, born in 1925, who grew up to see out, as a...  Read More >>

Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia

Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in...

Author: Sverre Molland
ISBN: 9781032015439
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Trade Interests and UN Funding: Commercial Earmarking of Multi-bi Aid

Trade Interests and UN Funding: Commercial Earmarking...

Author: Paweł Gmyrek
ISBN: 9780367545628
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines a particular type of donor behavior – known as country earmarking of contributions – which occurs...  Read More >>

9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World

9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How...

Author: Arianna Vedaschi (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan) ,  Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781316519264
Format: Hardback
$256.16

This book will be of use to scholars and students interested in counter-terrorism measures, as well as practitioners...  Read More >>

Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples' Rights...

Author: Irene Bellier ,  Jennifer Hays
ISBN: 9781032088525
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council: The Fate of the Liberal Order

South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council: The Fate...

Author: Eduard Jordaan (Rhodes University, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781032089454
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africa’s actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the country’s...  Read More >>

Individual Agency and Policy Change at the United Nations: The People of the United Nations

Individual Agency and Policy Change at the United Nations:...

Author: Ingvild Bode (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9781032098760
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book highlights how temporary international civil servants play a crucial role in initiating processes of legal...  Read More >>

The UN Military Staff Committee: Recreating a Missing Capacity

The UN Military Staff Committee: Recreating a Missing...

Author: Alexandra Novosseloff (New York University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032095578
Format: Paperback
$88.99

The UN Military Staff Committee is a misunderstood organ, and never really worked as initially envisaged. This book...  Read More >>

UNHCR as a Surrogate State: Protracted Refugee Situations

UNHCR as a Surrogate State: Protracted Refugee Situations...

Author: Sarah Deardorff Miller (American University, USA) ,  Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781032096384
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book explores the role of UNHCR in protracted refugee situations, and seeks to understand situations where...  Read More >>

The Way Forward: Beyond Agenda 21

The Way Forward: Beyond Agenda 21

Author: Felix Dodds (University of North Carolina & Tellus Institute, USA)
ISBN: 9780367186470
Format: Paperback
$48.99

First published in 1997. 1997 marked the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development....  Read More >>

Global Development and Human Rights: The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond

Global Development and Human Rights: The Sustainable...

Author: Paul Nelson
ISBN: 9781487521257
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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