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Democratization and International Organizations
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; January 2006, Vol. 60 Issue: 1 p137-167, 31p
Abstract: International organizations (IOs) have become increasingly pervasive features of the global landscape. While the implications of this development have been studied extensively, relatively little research has examined the factors that prompt states t...
Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; August 2002, Vol. 56 Issue: 3 p515-549, 35p
Abstract: Democratic transitions have become a widely studied phenomenon in comparative politics. The third wave of democratization spurred a considerable body of research examining the origins and consequences of these transitions.1 One topic that has receive...
Why International Organizations Should Bring Basic Needs Back in.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. May2009, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p129-150. 22p. 1 Chart, 2 Graphs.
Abstract: An important milestone in the development debate is the recognition of poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon via the capabilities approach. However, a challenge remains in that many governments in less-developed countries continue to avoid prioritiz...
The Importance of Voting in International Organizations: Simulating the Case of the European Union.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2004, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p40-49. 10p.
Abstract: Simulations can have many advantages over the standard lecture format. This is particularly true with respect to topics that are not as exciting as, say, a major international crisis. The single-class session simulation described in this article takes ...
The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; 1999, Vol. 53 Issue: 4 p699-732, 34p
Abstract: International Relations scholars have vigorous theories to explain why international organizations (IOs) are created, but they have paid little attention to IO behavior and whether IOs actually do what their creators intend. This blind spot flows logic...
The Third Leg of the Kantian Tripod for Peace: International Organizations and Militarized Disputes, 1950–85
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; 1998, Vol. 52 Issue: 3 p441-467, 27p
Abstract: Immanuel Kant's vision of “perpetual peace,” expressed more than two centuries ago, was built on a tripod of complementary influences: (1) “republican constitutions” (in modern parlance, representative democracy) would constrain autocratic caprice in w...
Challenges to the Liberal Order: Reflections on International Organization
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; 2021, Vol. 75 Issue: 2 p225-257, 33p
Abstract: AbstractAs International Organizationcommemorates its seventy-fifth anniversary, the Liberal International Order (LIO) that authors in this journal have long analyzed is under challenge, perhaps as never before. The articles in this issue explore the n...
International Bureaucrats and the Formation of Intergovernmental Organizations: Institutional Design Discretion Sweetens the Pot
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; January 2014, Vol. 68 Issue: 1 p177-209, 33p
Abstract: AbstractBureaucrats working in international intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) regularly help states design new IGOs. Sometimes international bureaucrats possess limited discretion in institutional design; sometimes, they enjoy broad discretion. I...
Can International Nongovernmental Organizations Boost Government Services? The Case of Health
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; July 2013, Vol. 67 Issue: 3 p541-573, 33p
Abstract: AbstractDo international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) lessen the need for states to provide their own services? In the case of health, many assume that INGOs limit health spending by governments. Against the conventional wisdom, we argue that ...
International Nongovernmental Organizations and the Global Diffusion of National Human Rights Institutions
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): International Organization; July 2013, Vol. 67 Issue: 3 p505-539, 35p
Abstract: AbstractDuring the past three decades national human rights institutions (NHRIs) have spread to more than one hundred United Nations (UN) member states and become key to human rights enforcement and democratic accountability. Given that NHRIs can take ...