global governance Global Issues Series Editor: Jim Whitman This series comprises three principal themes: the interaction of human and natural systems; co-operation and conflict; and the enactment of values.
The Role of Business in Global Governance Corporations as Norm-Entrepreneurs Annegret Flohr, Lothar Rieth, both Research Associates, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, Sandra Schwindenhammer, Research Assistant, FernUniversitat in Hagen, Germany and Klaus Dieter Wolf, Deputy Director, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany
The Role of Business in Global Governance offers an empirically rich analysis of the new political role of corporations in the co-performance of governance functions beyond the state. Within comparative case studies, potential explanations of the political role of transnational corporations are systematically tested. Contents: PART I: THE RESEARCH CONTEXT / PART II: CAUSES OF CORPORATE NORM-ENTREPRENEURSHIP / PART III: EVALUATING CORPORATE NORMENTREPRENEURSHIP A Full Table of Contents is Available at: www.palgrave.com January 2010 288pp 216x138mm 6 b/w illustrations and 31 b/w tables Hardback £57.50 978-0-230-24397-2
Corporate Security Responsibility? Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security in Zones of Conflict
‘Non-Lethal’ Weapons
The New International Policing
Neil Davison, Policy Manager for International Security, Royal Society, UK Foreword by Paul Rogers
Beth Greener, Lecturer in International Relations, Massey University, New Zealand
‘Set to be the standard text on ‘non-lethal’ weapons.’ - Dr Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission ‘…a powerful moral warning.’ - New Scientist Magazine This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the development and deployment of ‘non-lethal’ weapons by police and military organizations. It reviews the key technologies, issues, and dangers, with particular attention to the development of drugs, lasers, microwaves, and acoustics as incapacitating weapons. Contents: Foreword by Paul Rogers / Introduction / The Early History of ‘Non-Lethal’ Weapons / ‘Non-Lethal’ Weapons in the 1990s / The Contemporary Development of ‘Non-Lethal’ Weapons / Chemical and Biochemical Weapons / Directed Energy Weapons / Acoustic Weapons / Conclusion / Notes / Index June 2009 14 b/w tables Hardback
328pp
216x138mm
£60.00
978-0-230-22106-2
Police personnel have increasingly been deployed outside their own domestic jurisdictions to uphold law and order and to help rebuild states. This book explores the phenomenon of a ‘new international policing’ and outlines the range of challenges and opportunities it presents to both practitioners and theorists. Contents: Introduction / A Brief History of International Policing / Kosovo and East Timor / RAMSI / Afghanistan and Iraq / The New International Policing in Theory / The New International Policing / Bibliography / Index March 2009 Hardback
208pp £52.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-57390-1
Use the following ISBNs to order all titles in the series: Hardback: 978-0-333-79483-8 Paperback: 978-1-4039-1905-2
Edited by Nicole Deitelhoff, Head of Research Team and Klaus Dieter Wolf, Deputy Director, both at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany
Corporate Security Responsibility? focuses on the role of private business in zones of conflict. The book contributes to closing the gap between research on Global Governance and Peace and Conflict Studies. It applies a systematic research design to the study of corporate governance contributions to peace and security across a number of cases. January 2010 272pp 216x138mm 2 b/w illustrations and 7 b/w tables Hardback £57.50 978-0-230-24184-8
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