[PDF] Reform Of The International Institutions eBook

Author : Guy Fiti Sinclair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198757964

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The book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by law. The proposed book will contend that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally, most often in the Global South, in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within and interactions among states, societies, and peoples on a broadly Western, liberal model. Adopting a historical and interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach, it supports this claim through detailed investigations of historical episodes involving three very different organizations: the International Labour Organization in the interwar period; the United Nations in the two decades following the Second World War; and the World Bank from the 1950s through to the 1990s. The book draws on a wide range of original institutional and archival materials, bringing to light little-known aspects of each organization's activities, identifying continuities in the ideas and practices of international governance across the twentieth century, and speaking to a range of pressing theoretical questions in present-day international law and international relations --Front flap of the book.

Author : Ubuntu Forum Secretariat
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849770174

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There is now considerable unanimity that international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bretton Woods Institutions and the international economic architecture need to be reformed in order to achieve greater democratic governance to tackle the myriad of challenges facing the world. Written by leading members of the international community under the auspices of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU, this book provides a diverse and rich resource on all aspects of the reform of international organizations. The book introduces the reader to the main organizations of the international multilateral system, presents proposals for reform and provides an analysis of the political action required to achieve global democratic governance.

Author : Peter Coffey
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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At no time since the creation of the IMF and World Bank, (and later of the WTO) has it been a more opportune time to examine the work, reform and future of the international monetary and trading systems. This text provides an assessment of these institutions from both an American and European perspective.

Author : Colin I. Bradford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2007-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081571369X

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The current international system of institutions and governance groups is proving inadequate to meet many of today's most important challenges, such as terrorism, poverty, nuclear proliferation, financial integration, and climate change. The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and UN were founded after World War II, and their structures of voting power and representation have become obsolete, no longer reflecting today's balance of economic and political power. This insightful book examines how to make such institutions more responsive and effective. Institutional reform is critically needed but currently in stalemate. A new push is needed from powerful nations acting together through a reformed and enlarged G-8 that includes emerging economies, such as China and India. Global challenges demand integrated approaches, with greater coordination among international institutions. Global Governance Reform argues that without reconstituting the Group of 8 summit into a larger, more representative group of leaders, with a new mandate to provide strategic guidance to the system of international institutions, the world will fall further behind in addressing global challenges. The path to global reform is defined by the need to act in coordinated ways on summit and institutional reform, and this book lights the way.

Author : Matt Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139619640

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Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered relevant by implementing agents. The result is a set of new forms that do not function. However, there are realistic solutions emerging from institutional reforms in some developing countries. Lessons from these experiences suggest that reform limits, although challenging to adopt, can be overcome by focusing change on problem solving through an incremental process that involves multiple agents.

Author : UBUNTU, World Forum of Civil Society Networks. Secretariat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 1844078116

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First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John-ren Chen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2003-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781008868

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In an increasingly globalised world, it is becoming ever more difficult for nation states to adapt to the international consequences of market failures, government failures and global externalities without co-operation and co-ordination with other countries. In the absence of any form of world government, the most effective solution to this problem is either to create new international institutions, reform existing ones or work within the prevailing institutional framework.