International Organization and Global Governance 0415627435, 9780415627436

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G LOBAL G OVERNANCE

Featuring a diverse and impressive array of authors, this volume is the most comprehensive textbook available for all interested in international organization and global governance. Organized around a concern with how the world is and could be governed, the book offers: n

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in-depth and accessible coverage of the history and theories of international organization and global governance; discussions of the full range of state, intergovernmental, and nonstate actors; examinations of key issues in all aspects of contemporary global governance.

The book’s 50 chapters are arranged into seven parts and woven together by a comprehensive introduction to the field, separate section introductions designed to guide students and faculty, and helpful pointers to further reading. International Organization and Global Governance is a self-contained resource enabling readers to better comprehend the role of myriad actors in the governance of global life as well as to assemble the many pieces of the contemporary global governance puzzle. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The City University of New York, and Research Professor at SOAS, University of London. Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of International Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences, and Research Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, at the University of Manchester.

International Organization and Global Governance should have a place on any international relations scholar’s shelf. In addition to its sheer comprehensiveness as a reference work, it takes the crucial conceptual leap of focusing not on organizations, institutions, regimes, or any other piece of international order, but instead on the presence or absence of actual governance: the successful exercise of power to achieve outcomes. As one important chapter asks, who are the actual governors of the international system? The answers, with respect to many areas of international life, are surprising. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA. It is impossible to understand global governance without recognizing the important roles played by international organizations and non-state actors. This volume brings together cutting edge work by experts in their various fields to synthesize actor based and issue based insights about global governance. Peter M. Haas, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. A comprehensive survey of the theory and practice of global governance in the modern world. Comprised of outstanding essays by acknowledged experts and filled with important insights, International Organization and Global Governance is essential reading for scholars and students as well as practitioners. David A. Lake, Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, USA. Never before has a book demonstrated so systematically that ‘global governance’ offers a useful lens to analyze world politics. Extraordinarily comprehensive, it will become a vital reference for academics and practitioners. Jean-Philippe Thérien, Université de Montréal, Canada. This volume brings together contributions from an outstanding group of scholars. It is an indispensable guide for understanding the full range of contemporary challenges of global governance and international organizations, from a variety of perspectives. Keith Krause, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. This very comprehensive collection, which includes contributions from many of the leading figures in the field, is sure to be the principal reference work on international organizations and global governance for many years to come. John Ravenhill, Australian National University, Australia.

Weiss and Wilkinson have assembled a magnificent set of chapters from leading scholars that simultaneously provides a tour de force of international organizations and a clear guide to conceptualizing and understanding global governance. This persuasive account of the history, power and authority of international organizations should be required reading for all students, professors and practitioners of global governance and international relations. Catherine Weaver, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. A tour de force . . . This meticulously conceived textbook on global governance and international organizations with essays by some of the world’s finest experts will be a classic for scholars and practitioners from day 1. Jan Wouters, Jean Monnet Chair EU and Global Governance, Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. Extensive and rigorous, Weiss and Wilkinson present in a single volume the history, theory, cross-cutting issues and empirical cases vital to understanding International Organizations. This is a must have for scholars of IOs. Susan Park, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sydney, Australia. Kofi Annan was right: we are creating a global village. Hence, the need for stronger global village councils becomes more pressing day by day. Despite this, few understand how spectacularly global governance—in all its manifestations—has grown and why it needs to keep growing to keep the world safe. Weiss and Wilkinson have done us a remarkable service by producing this volume now: it provides an indispensable guide to the fastest growing global industry. And it will be read and studied for several decades as the world continues to converge. Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. The fifty chapters in this book, written by scholars from around the world, provide a comprehensive overview of the expanding agenda and participation in global governance. All readers will become aware of how they are involved in global governance, and how they might respond. Chadwick F. Alger, Mershon Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, USA. The reach and scope of this collection renders it invaluable for situating the study of international organizations in the broader field of IR. Thomas Biersteker, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.

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I NTERNATIONAL O RGANIZATION AND G LOBAL G OVERNANCE

n Edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson

First published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 Selection and editorial matter, Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson; contributors, their contributions. The right of Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data International organization and global governance/edited by Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson. pages cm Summary: “Featuring a strikingly diverse and impressive team of authors, this is the most comprehensive textbook available for courses on international organization and global governance. This book covers the history, theories, structure, activities and policies of both state-centred institutions, and non-state actors in global politics”—Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. International organization. 2. International agencies. 3. International relations. 4. Globalization. I. Weiss, Thomas George. II. Wilkinson, Rorden, 1970– JZ5566.I592013 341.2–dc23 2013006787 ISBN: 978-0-415-62743-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-62760-3 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-79597-2 (ebk) Typeset in Adobe Garamond by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK

n C ONTENTS List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgments List of abbreviations

Part I

Introduction

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: WHAT MATTERS AND WHY

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7 CLASSICAL LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM

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Christer Jönsson 8 NEOLIBERAL INSTITUTIONALISM

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David P. Forsythe 9 RATIONAL CHOICE AND PRINCIPAL–AGENT THEORY

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Henning Tamm and Duncan Snidal 10 CONSTRUCTIVISM 3

Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson

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Rodney Bruce Hall 11 CRITICAL THEORY

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Robert W. Cox

Part II

Contextualizing International Organization and Global Governance 19

1 THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

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Craig N. Murphy 2 THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

12 CLASSICAL MARXISM

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Paul Cammack 13 FEMINISM

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Susanne Zwingel, Elisabeth Prügl, and Gülay Caglar 14 POST-HEGEMONIC MULTILATERALISM

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Amitav Acharya 35

Charlotte Ku 3 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE DIFFUSION OF POWER

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Part IV States and International Institutions in Global Governance 205

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15 THE UN SYSTEM

Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall 4 THE DIFFUSION OF AUTHORITY

5 WHO GOVERNS THE GLOBE?

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16 THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

17 REGIONAL GOVERNANCE

Theories of International Organization and Global Governance

6 REALISM

Jason Charrette and Jennifer Sterling-Folker

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M. J. Peterson

Susan K. Sell

Part III

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Leon Gordenker

David Held

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Monica Herz 18 THE EUROPEAN UNION

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Ben Rosamond 19 THE BRICS IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

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Andrew F. Cooper and Ramesh Thakur

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20 THE GLOBAL SOUTH

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Ian Taylor 21 US HEGEMONY

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W. Andy Knight

Part V

Non-state Actors in Global Governance

22 UN–BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS

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Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes 25 CREDIT RATING AGENCIES

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Simon Chesterman 37 CRISIS AND HUMANITARIAN CONTAINMENT

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Rob Jenkins 39 HUMAN SECURITY AS A GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD

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Peter J. Hoffman 29 TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL NETWORKS

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Fen Osler Hampson and Mark Raymond

Michael Moran 28 PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES

36 HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND R2P

38 POST-CONFLICT PEACEBUILDING

James G. McGann 27 GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY

35 THE PURSUIT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

Fabrice Weissman

Timothy J. Sinclair 26 THINK TANKS AND GLOBAL POLICY NETWORKS

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Julie Mertus

Richard J. Goldstone

Jan Aart Scholte 24 LABOR

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Peter Romaniuk 34 HUMAN RIGHTS IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Catia Gregoratti 23 CIVIL SOCIETY AND NGOS

33 FROM “GLOBAL WAR” TO GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION IN WORLD POLITICS

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Frank G. Madsen

Part VII Governing the Economic and Social World

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40 GLOBAL FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE

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Bessma Momani

Part VI Securing the World, Governing Humanity

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30 UN SECURITY COUNCIL AND PEACE OPERATIONS

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41 GLOBAL TRADE GOVERNANCE

42 GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOVERNANCE

Paul D. Williams and Alex J. Bellamy 31 REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND GLOBAL SECURITY GOVERNANCE

S. Neil MacFarlane 32 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu

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Katherine Marshall 43 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

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Bernard Hoekman

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Elizabeth R. DeSombre 44 THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Jonathan R. Strand

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45 CLIMATE CHANGE

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Matthew J. Hoffmann 46 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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50 REFUGEES AND MIGRATION

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Khalid Koser 632

David Hulme and Oliver Turner 48 FOOD AND HUNGER

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Sophie Harman

Roger A. Coate 47 POVERTY REDUCTION

49 GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE

Index

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Jennifer Clapp

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n I LLUSTRATIONS z Figures 9.1 9.2 15.1 15.2 16.1 18.1 30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4

Possibilities for agency slack Modes of governance UN specialized agencies UN Chief Executives Board membership Flow chart of General Assembly discussions The institutions of the European Union Number of ongoing UN-led peacekeeping operations, 1948–2012 Number of uniformed personnel in UN-led peacekeeping operations Approved UN peacekeeping budgets (fiscal years 1 July–30 June 2003–13) Fatalities in UN-led peacekeeping operations (up to 31 August 2012)

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z Tables 16.1 17.1 17.2 17.3 18.1 18.2 22.1 22.2 25.1 30.1 40.1 41.1

Proportion of draft resolutions recommended by a split vote, 2009 Regional organizations with multiple dimensions Regional organizations for human rights and humanitarian action Contributions of regional organizations to peace operations, 2011 Evolution of the treaties of the EU European Union enlargements International and national UN–business partnerships within the ILO, UNICEF, and UN Women: 2000–present Principles of conduct Credit rating scales Peace operations: a typology with examples The ten policies of the “Washington Consensus” From GATT to WTO: some key events

228 243 245 246 255 257 313 315 351 417 542 554

z Boxes 27.1 27.2 27.3 29.1 29.2 29.3 42.1 42.2 45.1

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What are private foundations? Foundations and international relations theory The new global philanthropy Human trafficking Illicit trade in organs US law enforcement offices abroad Reaffirming a global vision for development in 2000 Images of global development, mapping poverty in 2011 Orienting terms and dynamics

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n C ONTRIBUTORS Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of International Security in the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University. Gülay Caglar is Research Fellow in the Division of Gender and Globalization at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. Paul Cammack is Professor of Global Political Economy and head of the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. Jason Charrette is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Simon Chesterman is Dean of the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. Jennifer Clapp is Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the Environment and Resource Studies Department at the University of Waterloo. Roger A. Coate is Paul D. Coverdell Professor of Public Policy at Georgia College and State University. Andrew F. Cooper is a Professor in the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Centre for Studies on Rapid Global Change, at the University of Waterloo. Robert W. Cox is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at York University. Elizabeth R. DeSombre is Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. Raymond Duvall is Morse-Alumni Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. David P. Forsythe is Emeritus Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Richard J. Goldstone is Visiting Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School. Leon Gordenker is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Catia Gregoratti is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Lund University. xi

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Rodney Bruce Hall is University Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of International Development, and a Governing Body Fellow of St. Cross College, University of Oxford. Fen Osler Hampson is Distinguished Fellow and Director of Global Security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University. Sophie Harman is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Nigel Haworth is Professor of Human Resource Development at the University of Auckland. David Held is Master of University College and Professor of Politics and International Relations, Durham University. Monica Herz is Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro. Bernard Hoekman is Professor and Research Director of Global Economics in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Global Governance Programme) at the European University Institute. Peter J. Hoffman is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. Matthew J. Hoffmann is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Steve Hughes is Professor of International Organisations at Newcastle University Business School. David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies, Head of the Institute for Development Policy and Management, and Executive Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. Rob Jenkins is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Christer Jönsson is Professor of Political Science at Lund University and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. W. Andy Knight is Director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Khalid Koser is Deputy Director and Academic Dean at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Charlotte Ku is Professor of Law and Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Legal Studies and Co-Director for the Center on Law and Globalization at the University of Illinois College of Law. S. Neil MacFarlane is Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and Fellow at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. xii

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James G. McGann is Assistant Director of the International Relations Program and Director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Frank G. Madsen is Researcher in Transnational Crime at the University of Cambridge. Katherine Marshall is Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. Julie Mertus is Professor and Co-Director of the Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs Program in the School of International Service at the American University. Bessma Momani is Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo Balsillie School of International Affairs and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation and the Brookings Institution. Michael Moran is Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Craig N. Murphy is M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College, and Professor of Global Governance at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Global and Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston. M. J. Peterson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Elisabeth Prügl is Professor of International Relations and Deputy Director of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Mark Raymond is Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Peter Romaniuk is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. Ben Rosamond is EURECO Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Jan Aart Scholte is Chair of Peace and Development at Gothenburg University and Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Susan K. Sell is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu is Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Timothy J. Sinclair is Associate Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and Professor in the Center for History, Finance and Politics at Kyung Hee University, Korea. Duncan Snidal is Professor of International Relations and Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

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Jennifer Sterling-Folker is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Jonathan R. Strand is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Henning Tamm is a Post Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. Ian Taylor is Professor of International Relations and African Politics at the University of St. Andrews. Ramesh Thakur is Professor of International Relations in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament in the Crawford School at the Australian National University. Oliver Turner is Hallsworth Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The City University of New York, and Research Professor at SOAS, University of London. Fabrice Weissman is Director of the Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires at the Médecins Sans Frontières Foundation. Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of International Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences, and Research Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, at the University of Manchester. Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Susanne Zwingel is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the State University of New York, Potsdam.

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n ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We began thinking about putting this volume together more than a decade ago when we first discussed a book series on global institutions. As the series’ tenth anniversary approached, we put together a proposal that contained what we thought a book on international organization and global governance should look like if we were given carte blanche. Craig Fowlie and Nicola Parkin at Routledge were enthusiastic about our idea and promptly sent the proposal to ten referees. We were pleasantly surprised when not too long thereafter ten glowing endorsements for the proposal came back. The feedback we received in each of those reviews helped us refine aspects of the proposal and the book that follows. We are grateful to each of those reviewers for their support and constructive criticisms. Craig and Nicola also gave us valuable feedback. A decade of collaborating closely on the Global Institutions Series, among other projects, has been fruitful and rewarding. We value their support and look forward to many more years of working together. We are also grateful to the rest of the editorial and production team at Routledge for their work on this volume. The book would not have come together without the first-rate support provided by Oliver Turner. A rising academic star in his own right, Oliver helped organize and oversee the delivery of this project from the moment that the chapters started coming in to the correction of the final anomaly in the proverbial last endnote. His industry, willingness, and attention to detail improved immensely the quality of this book, in addition to making our lives and roles as editors easier. We are truly grateful for his efforts. Oliver also provided valuable comments on our own chapter in this volume as well as a related piece entitled “Rethinking Global Governance? Complexity, Authority, Power and Change,” published in International Studies Quarterly 58, no. 2 (March 2014). We are also grateful to Erin Hannah, Craig Murphy, and Tim Sinclair, who were also terrific reviewers of our joint scribbling. Erin turned around a draft of our introductory chapter in record time and provided suggestions that improved the text and argument. Craig and Tim did likewise for our International Studies Quarterly submission, which also helped shape our thinking for the introductory chapter. We are grateful to David Hulme at the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) for enabling us to use BWPI as the institutional base for this project and for the use of the Institute’s resources, and to Denise Redston for providing Rorden with invaluable administrative support. We are also thankful for Martin Burke’s assistance when this book was on the drawing board for helping to get us organized and started, as he has done so capably for the last several years for the Global Institutions Series. The fact that 35 of the 62 contributors to this edited collection also have books in our series is a source of pride. Tom was able to devote so much time to this endeavor because he was on sabbatical leave. He thus would like to acknowledge support from The City University of New York’s Graduate Center and several other institutions during this period: the One Earth Future Foundation; the Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven; the Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg of the University of Konstanz; and the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London. T.G.W. and R.W. New York and Manchester, June 2013 xv

n A BBREVIATIONS ABM ACSRT ACTA ADB AfDB AG AIDS ALAC ALBA AMIS AMISOM AoA APEC ASEAN ASEM ASP AU BASIC BI BIAC BOAD BoP BPA BPoA BRAC BRIC BRICS BRICSAM BRIICS BTWC BWC BWI CABEI CAN CAT CBD CBDR CDB CEB CEDAW

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Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty African Union’s African Center for Study and Research on Terrorism Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Asian Development Bank African Development Bank Australia Group Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome At-Large Advisory Committee Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas Agricultural Market Information System African Union Mission in Somalia Agreement on Agriculture Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Association of Southeast Asian Nations Asia–Europe Meeting Assembly of States Parties African Union Brazil, South Africa, India, and China Brookings Institution Business and Industry Advisory Committee West African Development Bank base of the pyramid Beijing Platform for Action Barbados Programme of Action Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (but superseded by the abbreviation alone) Brazil, Russia, India, China Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Mexico Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, South Africa Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Biological Weapons Convention Bretton Woods institution Central American Bank for Economic Integration Andean Community of Nations Committee/Convention Against Torture Convention on Biological Diversity common but differentiated responsibilities Caribbean Development Bank Chief Executives Board Committee/Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

ABBREVIATIONS

CEIP CEMENT CEO CERD CERDI CFA CFCs CFS CGIAR CHR CIGI CIMMYT CIS CITES CIVETS CMS CONGO CoP COP CRC CRPD CRS CSC CSCE CSD CSDMT CSDP CSI CSR CSW CTAG CTAP CTBT CTC CTED CTITF CVE CWC DAC DAW DDT DESA

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace countries of emerging markets excluded from new terminology chief executive officer Committee/Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Center for Studies and Research on Development at the University of Auvergne Comprehensive Framework for Action chlorofluorocarbons Committee on World Food Security Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Commission on Human Rights Centre for International Governance Innovation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Commonwealth of Independent States Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa Convention for the Conservation of Migratory Species Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations Conference of the Parties Communication on Progress Committee/Convention on the Rights of the Child Committee/Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Catholic Relief Services country-specific configuration Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Commission on Sustainable Development Comprehensive Statistical Database of Multilateral Treaties Common Security and Defence Policy Container Security Initiative corporate social responsibility Commission on the Status of Women Counterterrorism Action Group Counterterrorism Action Plan Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Counterterrorism Committee Counterterrorism Executive Directorate United Nations Counterterrorism Implementation Taskforce countering violent extremism Chemical Weapons Convention Development Assistance Committee Division for the Advancement of Women dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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DfID DFS DPI DPKO DPRK DRC EAC EADB EBRD EC ECB ECJ ECOMOG ECOSOC ECOWAS ECSC EEA EEC EFTA ELCI EMs ENDA EP ETUC EU EULEX KOSOVO EUPM EUPOL COPPS Euratom FACI FAO FATF FCL FCTC FDI FES FIFA FIU FMCT FSAP FSB FSC FTAA FYR G7 G8

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Department for International Development (UK) Department of Field Support Department of Public Information UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of Congo East African Cooperation Treaty East African Development Bank European Bank for Reconstruction and Development European Community European Central Bank European Court of Justice Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group Economic and Social Council Economic Community of West African States European Coal and Steel Community European Economic Area European Economic Community European Free Trade Association Environment Liaison Centre International emerging market economies Environnement et Développement du Tiers-Monde European Parliament European Trade Union Council European Union European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina European Union Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories European Atomic Energy Community forensic accounting and corporate investigations Food and Agriculture Organization Financial Action Task Force Flexible Credit Line Framework Convention on Tobacco Control foreign direct investment Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Fédération Internationale de Football Association financial intelligence unit Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty Financial Sector Assessment Program Financial Stability Board Forest Stewardship Council Free Trade Area of the Americas Former Yugoslav Republic Group of Seven Group of Eight

ABBREVIATIONS

G20 G77 GAIN GATT GAVI GCIM GCTF GDP GEF GEI GFATM GFC GHG GOARN GPN GRI GUF GVC GWOT HIPC HIV HLP HLPE HLTF HRC HST IAASTD IAEA IASC IAVI IBRD IBSA ICANN ICAO ICC ICCPR ICEM ICESCR ICFTU ICG ICIS ICISS ICJ ICM

Group of 20 Group of 77 Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation Global Commission on International Migration Global Counterterrorism Forum gross domestic product Global Environment Facility Green Economy Initiative Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria global financial crisis greenhouse gas Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network global production networks Global Reporting Initiative Global Union Federation global value chain global war on terrorism heavily indebted poor country Human Immunodeficiency Virus High-level Panel High-level Panel of Experts High-level Task Force on the Food Security Crisis Human Rights Council hegemonic stability theory decapitalise International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development International Atomic Energy Agency Inter-Agency Standing Committee International AIDS Vaccine Initiative International Bank for Reconstruction and Development India, Brazil, South Africa Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers International Civil Aviation Organization International Criminal Court International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights International Confederation of Free Trade Unions International Crisis Group Interpol Criminal Information System International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty International Court of Justice Intergovernmental Committee for Migration xix

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ICPAT ICPD ICPO ICRC ICSID ICSU ICTR ICTSD ICTY IDA IDB IDP IDRC IDS IEA IFAD IFC IFI IFOR IFPRI IGBP IGO IIED IISD IISS ILO IMF IMO INC INF INGO INTERFET INTERPOL IO IOC IOM IOSCO IPCC IPPDDHH IPRs IR IRO IRRI ISAF ISO

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Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s, IGAD, Capacitybuilding Program Against Terrorism International Conference on Population and Development International Criminal Police Organization International Committee of the Red Cross International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes International Council of Scientific Unions International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia International Development Association Inter-American Development Bank internally displaced person International Development Research Centre Institute of Development Studies International Energy Agency International Fund for Agricultural Development International Finance Corporation international financial institution Implementation Force in Bosnia International Food Policy Research Institute International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme intergovernmental organization International Institute for Environment and Development International Institute for Sustainable Development International Institute for Strategic Studies International Labour Organization International Monetary Fund International Maritime Organization Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty international nongovernmental organization International Force for East Timor International Criminal Police Organization international organization International Oceanographic Commission International Organization for Migration International Organization of Security Commissions Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Instituto de Politicas Públicas de Derechos Humanos intellectual property rights international relations International Refugee Organization International Rice Research Institute International Security Assistance Force International Organization for Standardization

ABBREVIATIONS

ITO ITS ITU ITUC ITUC-PERC IUCN JCLEC KFOR LDC LED LGBTI LLDC LNHO MAD MAP MARPOL MDB MDG MFN MIGA MIST MNC MONUC MONUSCO MOU MPRI MSF MTCR NAALC NAB NAFTA NAM NATO NCUC NEPAD NHS NIEO NIIO NGF NGLS NGO NPE NPT NRSRO

International Trade Organization international trade secretariats International Telecommunication Union International Trade Union Confederation ITUC-Pan European Regional Council International Union for the Conservation of Nature Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation Kosovo Force least developed country light-emitting diode lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex landlocked developing country League of Nations Health Organization mutually assured destruction mutual assessment process International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships multilateral development bank Millennium Development Goal most-favored nation Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey multinational corporation United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo memorandum of understanding Military Professional Resources, Inc. Médecins Sans Frontières Missile Technology Control Regime North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation New Agreement to Borrow North American Free Trade Agreement Nonaligned Movement North Atlantic Treaty Organization Noncommercial Users Constituency New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development National Health Service New International Economic Order New International Information Order new global finance Non-Governmental Liaison Service nongovernmental organization normative power Europe Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty nationally recognized statistical rating organizations

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NSA NSG NTB NWFZ O5 OAS OAU OCHA ODA ODI OECD OEEC OHCHR OIC OIHP ONUC OPCW OPEC OSAGI OSCE P5 PA PAMECA PBA PBC PBF PBSO PCL PDP PEPFAR PfP PICMME PIPA PMSC POC POPs POW PPP PRC PREJAL PSI PTA PTBT R&D

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R2P RATS RDB RFMO S&P SAARC SADC SAFE SALT SARS SCIMF SCN SCOPE SDB SDG SDR SDSN SDT SEARCCT SEATO SEC SIDS SIPRI SOPA SORT START TEEB TNC TPS TRIMs TRIPs TUAC TUCA UCLG UDHR UK UN UNAIDS UNAMID UNAMIR UNAMSIL UNAVEM UNCCD

responsibility to protect Regional Antiterrorism Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization regional development bank Regional Fisheries Management Organization Standard & Poor’s South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation Southern African Development Community Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade Framework Strategic Arms Limitation Talks severe acute respiratory syndrome Sub-Committee on IMF Matters UN Standing Committee on Nutrition Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment sub-regional development bank sustainable development goal special drawing rights Sustainable Development Solutions Network special and differential treatment Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Counterterrorism in Kuala Lumpur Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Securities and Exchange Commission small island developing state Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Stop Online Piracy Act Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity transnational corporation Temporary Protected Status Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Trade Union Advisory Committee Trade Union Confederation of the Americas United Cities and Local Governments Universal Declaration of Human Rights United Kingdom United Nations Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone United Nations Angola Verification Mission United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

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UNCCT UNCED UNCHE UNCLOS UNCSD UNCTAD UNDP UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFCCC UNFICYP UNFPA UNGA UNHABITAT UNHCR UNHLTF UNICEF UNIDIR UNIDO UNIFEM UNIFIL UNITA UNITAF UNITAID UNMA UNMIK UNMIL UNMIS UNMIS(S) UNMOGIP UNOCI UNODC UNOSOM UNPROFOR UNRRA UNRWA UNSCOB UNSCOM UNSMS UNTAC UNTAET UNTSO UNWOMEN UNWTO UPR

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United Nations Counterterrorism Centre United Nations Conference on Environment and Development United Nations Conference on the Human Environment United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development United Nations Conference on Trade and Development United Nations Development Programme United Nations Emergency Force United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus United Nations Population Fund United Nations General Assembly United Nations Human Settlements Programme Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations High-level Task Force United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Development Fund for Women United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon National Union for the Total Independence of Angola Unified Task Force Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria United Nations Mine Action United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo United Nations Mission in Liberia United Nations Mission in Sudan United Nations Mission in South Sudan United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan United Nations Mission in Côte d’Ivoire United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime United Nations Operations in Somalia United Nations Protection Force United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans United Nations Special Commission United Nations Security Management System United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor United Nations Truce Supervision Organization United Nations Women United Nations World Tourism Organization universal periodic review

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UPU US USAID USSR USTR VIP WAGS WBG WCL WCO WEP WEU WFP WFTO WFTU WGC WHA WHO WIPO WMDs WMO WSSD WTO

Universal Postal Union United States United States Agency for International Development Union of Soviet Socialist Republics United States Trade Representative very important person Working Group on Situations World Bank Group World Confederation of Labour World Customs Organization Women Empowerment Principles Western European Union World Food Programme World Fair Trade Organization World Federation of Trade Unions Working Group on Communications World Health Assembly World Health Organization World Intellectual Property Organization weapons of mass destruction World Meteorological Organization World Summit on Social Development World Trade Organization

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C ONTENTS Bringing international organization and global governance to the fore

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Few things point to the importance of understanding international organization and global governance more than their stark failings. The capacity of global humanitarian instruments to protect the lives of many of the world’s “at-risk” populations has repeatedly been called into question, with the all-too-harrowing images of past failures in Rwanda and Somalia still searing our memories, and Syria’s and Darfur’s suffering continuing as daily media bill-of-fare.1 The absence of a robust global regulatory regime governing financial transactions and innovations helped heighten the effects of the 2007–08 global financial and economic crises, plunging western economies into more than half a decade of recession and sparing little of the rest of the world. Just a decade earlier, the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997–98 had also drawn attention to the inadequacies of global financial governance, including to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) role in exacerbating the crisis.2 The global development architecture has presided over the feeblest of reductions in the proportion of the world’s population living on less than US$1.25 per day. As David Hulme summarizes, “our world is organized in such a way that around 1.5 to 2.5 billion people (depending on how you define poverty) have little or no access to the most basic needs.”3 And an unprecedented growth in the gap between rich and poor has occurred within and across nations.4 3

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Existing intergovernmental mechanisms for dealing with infectious disease have fallen short in dealing with cholera pandemics, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and dengue fever, among others.5 Meanwhile, global development programs have been implicated in the stagnation and decline of the health of populations on the periphery of the world economy.6 Despite a congested institutional terrain and the appearance of much activity, the pace of climate change, species loss, and desertification continues to call into question intergovernmental mechanisms for dealing with the deteriorating condition of the global environment. And efforts to stem the rate of growth of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to be frustrated by a lack of political will among the politicians in leading industrialized countries and their newly “emerging” counterparts, as well as among officials from the private sector and indeed citizens everywhere.7 A well-populated institutional terrain should not hide the fact that we are treading water, or perhaps drifting even farther out to sea and wasting the energy and time necessary to move toward safety. It is, of course, not just these failings that point to the importance of understanding international organization and global governance. It is the increasingly pluralistic nature of global politics and the change of roles therein. States have experimented with alternative intergovernmental arrangements—such as the current profusion of “groups,” with the Group of 7/8 (G7/8) and the Group of 20 (G20) being the most prominent —to coordinate policy in key areas. Regional arrangements continue to drive forward economic integration, and states have taken on the role of managers of global interdependence. A burgeoning nongovernmental sector is engaged in myriad activities ranging from familiar roles in disaster relief and poverty alleviation through to the implementation of micro-credit and micro-finance programs, to shaping global policy frameworks in development and health.8 Knowledge networks play an important role in policy formulation and dissemination.9 At the same time, other less salubrious actors have emerged in the governance of global affairs. Private military and security companies (PMSCs) are increasingly prominent in almost all arenas of conflict.10 Criminal gangs traffic indentured workers, women, and children from the borderlands of the industrialized world to the plantations of the southern US and the sex industries of Western Europe. Terrorist groups and networks have become involved in many countries across the globe, generating and fueling instability and raising questions over the capacity of international mechanisms to control their spread.11 Credit rating agencies and multinational corporations are key players in the global economy.12 Transnational religious movements—some interfaith, many not—have come to be seen as important development actors.13 And of course it is not just the number of actors involved in the governance of the globe that also requires us to develop a keen sense of the way that the world is organized. We also need to get a better grip on the way that financial markets and the internet, among many other mechanisms, shape life on the planet. What is striking, however, is that understanding the way that these actors and mechanisms are arranged one to another, the relations of power that underpin such arrangements, and the ideas and ideologies that drive their organizational forms and overall assemblage are not central to the study of international relations (IR). International organization (IO) and global governance are all too often taught as subfields within the wider discipline; they are commonly treated as synonyms for one another; and the

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relationship between them is seldom fully unpacked. Yet for us they are not merely curious phenomena but rather essential elements of the form and function of world order—and this chapter and the 50 others that follow demonstrate why. We aim to correct this misrepresentation in the remainder of the chapter and in our further introductions that begin each subsequent part of the book. Certainly, others have written important works that seek to shed light on the global governance puzzle,14 but none has done so as comprehensively as the chapters that follow. The centrality of questions about how the world is organized and governed—and a better understanding of the role myriad actors play in the governance of global life—offers an intriguing framework for what we believe is the most comprehensive guide yet published to help readers assemble the many pieces of the contemporary global governance puzzle. This introduction spells out first what matters and why with an overview of the field, and why we as a community of scholars have not really put international organization and global governance together very well to date. After our interpretation of why this book’s contents are essential reading, we parse briefly the substance of its seven main parts with more detailed introductions at the beginning of each of the sections of the book that follow.

z Bringing international organization and global z governance to the fore International relations—as a field of study and as a real-world pursuit—has always been centrally concerned with questions of international organization and global governance. Indeed, it could be argued that understanding how the world is governed, of which an appreciation of how relations between states are organized is a key part, has always been and remains one of the primary concerns of IR scholars.15 Yet, the central relationship of IO and global governance to the study and practice of IR is seldom acknowledged or understood. Rather, IO and global governance have tended to be presented as a combination of all or some of the following elements: n n n

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activities by the UN and other major international organizations; subsets of the broader field of international relations; the preserve of normative and idealistic projects concerned with making the world a better place; the low politics of mundane bureaucracies working on more technical economic, environmental, and social issues and not the high politics of security, warfare, and defense; and conspiracies about world government.

Yet to present IO and global governance in these terms means misunderstanding that the questions with which they are concerned are actually core endeavors of the major intellectual traditions in IR. A brief tour d’horizon illustrates why. Realism, in both its classical and neorealist variants, has as a constitutive tenet an assumption of how the world is organized. Hans J. Morgenthau was, among other things, 5

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concerned with varying forms of global organization—imperialism, world government, alliances, and self-determination; and mechanisms of governance—balances of power, international law, and supranational forms of arms control. Moreover, he examined (but did not necessarily advocate) alternative “future” forms of global governance—world state, world community, and the politics of accommodation.16 Kenneth Waltz’s neorealist formulation posits the international system as comprising a structure and a set of interacting units.17 As in the classical formulation, there is no central authority that orders the units; instead, their relations vis-à-vis one another are determined by their relative power capabilities. In both these variants, realism has a clear idea of the overall structure of how the world is governed, and the primary task at hand is to deal with the negative effects of this form of organization. Liberal internationalists and their modern neoliberal institutionalist, neofunctionalist, cosmopolitan, and constructivist counterparts also recognize the pernicious aspects of the way that world politics is organized. However, rather than focusing on the development of self-help manuals designed to bolster state power in the face of changes in relative power capabilities, they emphasize moments of common interest in which cooperation between and among states occurs, and in which such cooperation becomes institutionalized and regularized. These moments of cooperation shape and constrain state behavior via systems of rules, norms, practices, and decision-making procedures that may or may not be guided by progressive ideas and ideologies.18 The result is a focus on possibility, entertaining questions not only of how the world is governed but also of how it ought to be governed.19 More critical traditions too have ideas of world order as central tenets in their intellectual cannon. Classical Marxist, and more recent Gramscian and neo-Gramscian, approaches understand transnational and global organization as political responses to the exigencies of the spread of capitalism across the world.20 The organizing imperative is the facilitation of capitalist expansion. International and transnational organizations and their administrative and legal frameworks are the superstructural manifestations of that imperative.21 And the core purposes of these manifestations are to mitigate the conflicts that result from industrial expansion;22 create economic opportunities conducive with further accumulation;23 and stabilize and perpetuate particular relations of power.24 Feminist approaches—liberal and Marxist alike—likewise share a notion of the central organizing tenets of world politics. Here forms of organization, institutionalization, and regularization are shaped by and help perpetuate unequal gender relations between women and men, and girls and boys, irrespective of what might look like progressive policies and elements.25 A core concern is the reconstitution of existing social institutions that better reflect gender equities.26 Postcolonial approaches also have an understanding of how the world is organized. Common among scholars working in this tradition is a concern with historical processes that have ensured that European (including US) imperial orders continue to be the dominant mode in which relations in the periphery are governed in an ostensibly postcolonial order.27 The key challenge for them is to render instances of dominance and subordination visible and to bring to the fore other forms of social organization in a general movement that Dipesh Chakrabarty terms “provincializing Europe.”28 And an array of other antifoundationalist and poststructural approaches to IR have a concern for the way the world is governed as a central tenet of their intellectual traditions.29 6

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Yet for all their (albeit largely unrecognized) centrality to the core intellectual traditions of IR, IO and global governance are hardly unproblematic, nor is the relationship between them uncomplicated. Partly because IO and global governance are often taught as IR subfields rather than as primary concerns in and of themselves, little clarity exists about their core meanings, overlaps, and contradictions. In some instances, IO and global governance are treated synonymously; in others, both relate only to what international organizations “do”; and in others still, such variance exists in what is treated as the intellectual and empirical terrain as to render both of the terms meaningless.

z International organization and global governance: z one to another At its most basic, international organization refers to an instance—or, in an historical sense, a moment—of institutionalization in relations among states. Inis Claude’s formulation argues that: “International organization is a process; international organizations are representative aspects of the phase of that process which has been reached at a given time.”30 His and other classic definitions of IO are inexorably bound up with a normative desire to see the organizations that we currently have as moments in a progressive march toward growing global institutionalization. We tend to take IO to refer to formal interstate institutions that are, or which have the potential to be, planetary in reach, such as the United Nations (UN) or World Trade Organization (WTO), though any regional, less formal interstate arrangement can be and often is classified in this way as well. Indeed, analyses of the European Union (EU) are often features of North American classes on international organization; whereas in Europe supranational European institutions and their relationship to the post-war political economy of that continent are commonly viewed as distinct enough to merit separate courses from other international organizations. Confusing matters further, at least initially for students, is the seeming conflation of the term IO with “institutions” and “regimes.” Although they are not one and the same, there is a family relationship here that requires explanation. Strictly speaking, international organizations (as opposed to IO as a process) are formal intergovernmental bureaucracies. They have a legal standing, physical headquarters, executive head, staff, and substantive focus of operations. Hence, the World Intellectual Property Organization—a UN specialized agency—exists to coordinate and entrench in international legal frameworks the protection of intellectual property rights across the globe; it has its headquarters in Geneva; it has 185 member states; and its secretariat is overseen by a director-general. Other organizations might also be considered to be “international” in their focus and remit—such as the World Economic Forum that meets every year in Davos, Switzerland—but are not intergovernmental and are better described as “institutions”— forums, semi-permanent gatherings, or transnational arrangements depending on their specific character—to which we now turn. An international institution is broader. Whereas international organizations are formalized bureaucracies (and again it is worth bearing in mind that the “s” not only pluralizes the word but refers to specific entities and not a process of institutionalization), international institutions can be both formal and informal instances of regularized 7

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interstate behavior. So, while international organizations are also international institutions, a moment of regularized interstate behavior that does not have a legal personality, a headquarters, a secretariat, and an executive head is not. Here we can think of a range of institutions, including, but not limited to, semi-formalized groups of states— the Group of 7/8, Group of 77—and regularized balances of power between states, including the nineteenth century Concert of Europe and the twentieth century Cold War. Thus, international institutions are instances of international organization, but they are not necessarily international organizations. As such, we tend to define them—as Robert Keohane does—as “persistent and connected sets of rules (formal and informal) that prescribe behavioral roles, constrain activity, and shape expectations.”31 An international regime is slightly different again, although there is a relationship between both international organizations and international institutions, on the one hand, and regimes, on the other hand. Stephen Krasner’s formulation remains the most widely accepted definition of an international regime: “Implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actors’ expectations converge in a given area of international relations.”32 Despite this commonly accepted definition that suggests they are nearly synonyms of international institutions, international regimes are more accurately viewed as the range of activities that are, in part, created by the behavior-shaping effects of international organizations and institutions. What we have in mind here are areas of activity such as the international trade regime. Clearly international trade took place in the absence of global, regional, and national rules, systems of regulation, and organizational structures. What is distinct about the current international trade regime is that its volume, value, and content are shaped by the behavioral rules, practices, norms, and decision-making procedures of the WTO, myriad regional trade arrangements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, and an even greater number of bilateral agreements, not to mention the combination of national trade policies, the behavioral practices of private firms, and the lobbying efforts (effective or otherwise) of various nongovernmental actors.33 A key concern of scholars is to understand how power relationships are embedded in the way that the behavior of states—and their economic and political agents, including firms that may be multinational but which nonetheless emanate from and retain an organic connection to their states of origin—is shaped by international organizations, institutions, and regimes. Work by Robert Cox and Craig Murphy, for instance, has explored the organic connection between dominant states and the creation and evolution of international institu