International Organizations as Orchestrators reveals how IOs leverage their limited authority
and resources to increase their effectiveness, power, and autonomy from states …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

Until recently, institutionally minded scholars in the social sciences generally treated
institutions as fixed. Whether defined as the rules of the political game, the standard …

The contemporary debate on compliance has been framed in terms of two contending
perspectives on how best to make states comply with international rules: enforcement or …

Can international institutions help create more cooperative and peaceful relations between
states? If so, how? And what motivates states to create meaningful institutions in the first …

Transnational merchant law, which is mistakenly regarded in purely technical and apolitical
terms, is a central mediator of domestic and global political/legal orders. By engaging with …

This innovative and lively book draws upon recent and ongoing research on the EU policy
process and utilizes theoretical concepts from both international relations and public policy …

The European Court of Justice is one of the most important actors in the process of
European integration. Political science still struggles to understand its significance, with …

The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the
development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs …

International courts, like domestic courts, protect liberal limits on majoritarianism. This
sometimes puts these courts in a position to protect the property rights of the “corrupt elites” …