Inter-Organizational Relations and World Order: Re-Pluralizing the Debate

✍ Scribed by Ulrich Franke; Martin Koch (editors)

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Within International Relations scholarship, the nature of international organizations and their relationship with each other and nation-states has been widely contested. This edited volume brings together a team of experts to shed new light on inter-organizational relations in world politics. The book covers areas from the rule of law and international security to business and sport. Through its analysis, it demonstrates that, just as inter-organizations relations themselves are diverse and complex, research on this topic should also be pluralistic in order to draw new and valuable results and insights.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Interorganizational Relations and World Order: Re-Pluralizing the Debate
Copyright information
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledegments
1 Introduction: Examining Inter-Organizational Relations
Inter-organizational relations as an emerging subfield
Preconditions for the study of inter-organizational relations in international relations
Purpose of this volume
Forms and characteristics of inter-organizational relations
Contributions to world order
Mapping the field of research on inter-organizational relations
Rationalist approaches to inter-organizational relations
Resource dependence
Regime complexity
Challengers to the rationalist mainstream
Network accounts
Sociological neo-institutionalism
Classical pragmatism: structures of corporate practice
Structure of this book and its contributions
Notes
References
2 Hybrid Anti-Impunity Commissions and the Rule of Law
Introduction
State of the art
Theoretical framework
Methodology
Analysis: CICIG and the rule of law
The genesis of CICIG
CICIG’s inter-organizational relations
Stakeholders at the global/regional level
Stakeholders at the national level – host-state institutions
Stakeholders at the societal level – civil society organizations
Stakeholders at national level outside the host state – donor states
Results
Conclusion and outlook
Notes
References
3 Inter-Organizational Relations in Counterterrorism
Introduction
State of the art: counterterrorism listing in the UN and EU
Sociological neo-institutionalism and post-structuralist discourse theory: IGOs, lists and discursive closure
Methodological remarks
Shaping through closure: analysing UN-EU anti-terrorist lists
Isomorphism and mutual adjustments
Shaping through discursive closure
Results
Conclusions and outlook
Notes
References
4 Changing Models of Peacekeeping and the Downsizing of Human-Rights Norms
Introduction
State of the art
Conceptual framework: regime complexity and its effects on norm dynamics in peacekeeping operations
Analysing the Mali case as a ‘laboratory’ for stabilization interventions
The politics of regime complexity: peacekeeping, protection and counterterrorism in Mali
Counterterrorism and peacekeeping entanglements in Mali
Protection of civilians and peacekeeping under pressure
Enhancing coercive state power and the militarization of the protection of civilians
Loss of impartiality and the effects on the protection of civilians
Conclusions and outlook
Notes
References
5 Political Cleavages and the Competition over Epistemic Authority
Introduction
State of the art
Theory: organizational fields and their cleavages
Methodology
The transparency cleavage and its effects on military expenditure statistics
A lack of field-wide governance
Producers of statistics emerging in one camp but not the other
Uncertainty about spending levels and mimetic isomorphism
An expert discourse pushing for purchasing power parity calculations
Results: the persistence of field dynamics
Conclusions and outlook
Acknowledgements
References
6 Individual Linking Pins and the Life Cycle of Inter-Organizational Cooperation
Introduction
State of the art: NGO–NGO cooperation
Theoretical framework: linking pins and the stages of inter-organizational cooperation
Phases of inter-organizational cooperation
Linking pins and inter-organizational cooperation
Linking pins in the phases of inter-organizational cooperation
Methods and case selection
The roles of linking pins in security cooperation among humanitarian NGOs
The start-up phase of NGO security cooperation
The consolidation phase of NGO security cooperation
The expansion phase of NGO security cooperation
Results
Conclusion and outlook
Notes
References
7 The UN Global Compact as Inter-Organizational Relations
Introduction
The UN Global Compact and its ongoing assessment
Framing the UN Global Compact as inter- organizational relations
Methodology and case selection
Analysing the UN Global Compact and BP’s interpretation
Origin and rationale of the UN Global Compact
Corporate perception and understanding of the UN Global Compact: BP
Results
Conclusions and outlook
Notes
References
8 World Sports and Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Introduction
State of the art: the IOC and FIFA in world politics
Theoretical framework: organization studies and classical pragmatism
Methodology
The IOC, FIFA and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The IOC’s and FIFA’s environmental embedding
The IOC, FIFA and their responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The International Olympic Committee
FIFA
Answering the research question
Conclusion and outlook
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
9 Conclusion: A Pragmatist View of Inter-Organizational Relations and World Order
Inter-organizational relations research revisited
Inter-organizational contributions to world order
Translating the world-order contributions in this volume into beliefs as rules for action
Some dynamics of the current world order and an agenda for its future exploration
Note
References
Index