International Organisations 3rd Edition

✍ Scribed by Dr Clive Archer

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This widely used textbook continues to provide students with an introduction to International Organisations, exploring their rise, their development in the 20th century and accounting for their significance in the modern international political and economic system.The third edition: has been fully revised and updated continues to offer a unique concise, yet comprehensive, approach, giving students an accessible and manageable introduction to this core part of International Relations offers authoritative guides to further reading.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Preface to third edition......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 10
Definitions and history......Page 14
International organizations up to the First World War......Page 16
The foundations of the League of Nations......Page 27
The League's activities......Page 32
Post-Second World War organizations......Page 34
A working definition......Page 43
Classification of international organizations......Page 48
Membership: regionalism versus universalism......Page 58
Aims and activities......Page 63
Structure......Page 69
Summary......Page 76
Role and function of international organizations......Page 78
Roles of international organizations......Page 81
Functions of international organizations......Page 105
Global governance......Page 121
Conclusions......Page 123
Writings on international organizations......Page 125
Realists......Page 128
Reformists......Page 140
Radicals......Page 164
Summary......Page 185
International organizations: the future......Page 187
The probable future......Page 188
A better alternative?......Page 191
Bibliography......Page 195
Index......Page 211