[PDF] Why International Organizations Hate Politics eBook

Author : Marieke Louis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429883269

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Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why IOs "hate" politics by bringing together practices and logics of depoliticization in a wide variety of historical, geographic and organizational contexts. With multiple case studies in the fields of labor rights and economic regulation, environmental protection, development and humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, among others this book shows that depoliticization is enacted in a series of overlapping, sometimes mundane, practices resulting from the complex interaction between professional habits, organizational cultures and individual tactics. By approaching the consequences of these practices in terms of logics, the book addresses the instrumental dimension of depoliticization without assuming that IO actors necessarily intend to depoliticize their action or global problems. For IO scholars and students, this book sheds new light on IO politics by clarifying one often taken-for-granted dimension of their everyday activities, precisely that of depoliticization. It will also be of interest to other researchers working in the fields of political science, international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, international public administration, history, law, sociology, anthropology and geography as well as IO practitioners.

Author : Michael Barnett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801488238

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Provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics.

Author : Jacob Katz Cogan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1345 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191652369

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Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of international organizations. Aimed at academics, students, practitioners, and lawyers, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the world of international organizations today. It emphasizes both the practical aspects of their organization and operation, and the conceptual issues that arise at the junctures between nation-states and international authority, and between law and politics. While the focus is on inter-governmental organizations, the book also encompasses non-governmental organizations and public policy networks. With essays by the leading scholars and practitioners, the book first considers the main international organizations and the kinds of problems they address. This includes chapters on the organizations that relate to trade, humanitarian aid, peace operations, and more, as well as chapters on the history of international organizations. The book then looks at the constituent parts and internal functioning of international organizations. This addresses the internal management of the organization, and includes chapters on the distribution of decision-making power within the organizations, the structure of their assemblies, the role of Secretaries-General and other heads, budgets and finance, and other elements of complex bureaucracies at the international level. This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students alike.

Author : John Mikler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745698492

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We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of profit maximization. In this book, John Mikler re-casts global corporations as political actors with complex identities and strategies. Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively profit-driven entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or modify the agendas of states but to govern in their own right. He also explains why we need to re-territorialize global corporations as political actors that reflect and project the political power of the states and regions from which they hail. We know the global corporations' names, we know where they are headquartered, and we know where they invest and operate. Economic processes are increasingly produced by the control they possess, the relationships they have, the leverage they employ, the strategic decisions they make, and the discourses they create to enhance acceptance of their interests. This book represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.

Author : Bob Reinalda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134113056

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This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as institutions. Although the focus is on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are discussed where relevant. The handbook is divided into six parts: Documentation, Data Sets and Sources International Secretariats as Bureaucracies Actors within International Bureaucracies Processes within International Bureaucracies Challenges to International Organizations, and Expanding International Architectures. The state-of-the-art articles are meant to encourage current and future generations of scholars to enjoy working in and further exploiting the field and are also of great interest to practitioners of international organization and global governance

Author : Katharina Pichler Coleman
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780511289460

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Highlights the role of international organisations in providing international legitimacy for peace enforcement operations.

Author : Thomas D. Zweifel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2022
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781685851187

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Zweifel deftly blends history, theory, and case studies in a thorough assessment of the democratic nature--the accountability--of international organizations.