Overview
- Brings primary sources of IO theory together to offer a comprehensive overview
- Focuses on 4 distinctions: sovereignty/globalization, power/interdependence, efficiency/ideas, & regimes/institutions
- Applies distinctions to specific IOs, including the United Nations
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This comprehensively revised and updated edition offers an introduction to international organizations (IO) theory in the field of IR. It looks at the different ways in which IOs are studied and then applies these different modes to a variety of specific case studies.
The book is written as a primer for students studying global governance and IR theory. It highlights analytic tools available to understand what IOs are designed to do, how they work, what effects they have, and how to design them better. It goes beyond simple questions of whether IOs matter, and looks at the ways in which the different analytical tools developed within the rubric of IO theory are useful for answering different questions about the role of IOs in international politics.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
J. Samuel Barkin is a professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He has published widely on the topics of international relations and international organization theory, including The Sovereignty Cartel (2021), International Relations Last Synthesis? (2019), Interpretive Quantification: Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructive IR (2017), Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory (2010). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on both international organization and global governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Organization
Book Subtitle: Theories and Institutions
Authors: J. Samuel Barkin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22559-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22558-1Published: 19 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22559-8Published: 18 March 2023
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XI, 203
Topics: International Organization, Governance and Government, Political Science