Decision Making Within International Organizations
International organizations are increasingly important in the era of globalization but little is known about decision making within these institutions. This edited volume investigates how much influence governments as well as non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations and international bureaucracies, have upon decision making and the specific ways in which they try to affect international outcomes.
Decision Making Within International Organizations utilizes various theoretical approaches such as two-level games, groupthink, neo-institutionalism and garbage can theory to offer new insight into questions such as
- What drives international agencies?
- How do they attempt to affect decision making between states?
- What explains their success or failure?
The book includes an introduction by Robert W. Cox and presents case studies of many different international organizations, including the European Union, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Maritime Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, the G7/G8, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UNHCR.
The authors explore the delicate balance between the objectives of international organizations and their member states by drawing from both rationalist and constructivist scholarship in International Relations, thus contributing to a synthesis between both perspectives.
Bob Reinalda is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Nijmegen. Bertjan Verbeek is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science
Edited by Thomas Poguntke
Keele University, UK
Jan W. van Deth
University of Mannheim, Germany on behalf of the European Consortium for Political Research
The Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research the leading organization concerned with the growth and development of political science in Europe. The series presents high-quality edited volumes on topics at the leading edge of current interest in political science and related fields, with contributions from European scholars and others who have presented work at ECPR workshops or research groups.
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