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Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics

Palgrave Macmillan
  • First extensive handbook that takes stock of relations between major international organisations across a wide range of policy fields in world politics
  • Analyses a variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying inter-organizational relations
  • Offers a wide range of concrete case studies

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxix
  2. Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Social Network Analysis

      • Matthias Schulze, Florian Ries
      Pages 113-134
    3. Resource Dependence Theory

      • Rafael Biermann, Michael Harsch
      Pages 135-155
    4. Sociological Approaches

      • Ulrich Franke, Martin Koch
      Pages 169-187
    5. The Role of International Bureaucracies

      • Rafael Biermann
      Pages 243-270
    6. Nested Institutions

      • Spyros Blavoukos, Dimitris Bourantonis
      Pages 303-317
    7. NGO–NGO Relations

      • Andrea Schneiker
      Pages 319-336
    8. Legitimizing Inter-Organizational Relations

      • Rafael Biermann
      Pages 337-364
    9. Power in Inter-Organizational Relations

      • Hanna Ojanen
      Pages 365-388

About this book

This unique handbook brings together a team of leading scholars and practitioners in order to map, synthesize and assess key perspectives on cooperation and rivalry between regional and global organizations in world politics. For the first time, a variety of inter-disciplinary theoretical and conceptual perspectives are combined in order to assess the nature, processes and outcomes of inter-organizational partnerships and rivalries across major policy areas, such as peace and security, human rights and democratisation as well as finance, development and climate change . This text provides scholars, students and policy-makers of International Relations with an exhaustive reference book for understanding the theoretical and empirical dimensions of an increasingly important topic in International Relations (IR), Global Governance and related disciplines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Joachim A. Koops

  • Vesalius College, Brussels, Belgium

    Rafael Biermann

About the editors

Rafael Biermann is Chair of International Relations at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Previously, he was Vice-Dean of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, and responsible for policy planning in the German Chancellery and the MoD. His major monographs focus on international conflict prevention in Kosovo and Soviet policy on German unification.

Joachim A. Koops is Dean of Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Research Professor at the VUB’s Institute for European Studies and Director of the Global Governance Institute (GGI). Recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (OUP, 2015), The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor (Palgrave, 2015), The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar<(Palgrave, 2015)

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eBook USD 219.00
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Hardcover Book USD 279.99
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