ISBN:
9780198757962
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 342 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
The history and theory of international law
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sinclair, Guy Fiti To reform the world
DDC:
341.2
Keywords:
Internationale Arbeitsorganisation
;
Vereinte Nationen
;
International agencies
;
International law
;
Internationale Organisation
;
Entwicklung
;
Politisches Mandat
;
Politische Reform
;
Weltordnung
;
Politischer Prozess
;
Prozesssteuerung
;
Internationales Recht
;
Geschichte
;
Internationale staatliche Organisation
;
Einflussnahme
;
Mitgliedsstaaten
;
Good Governance
;
Geschichte 1919-2000
Abstract:
The book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by law. The proposed book will contend that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally, most often in the Global South, in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within and interactions among states, societies, and peoples on a broadly Western, liberal model. Adopting a historical and interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach, it supports this claim through detailed investigations of historical episodes involving three very different organizations: the International Labour Organization in the interwar period; the United Nations in the two decades following the Second World War; and the World Bank from the 1950s through to the 1990s. The book draws on a wide range of original institutional and archival materials, bringing to light little-known aspects of each organization's activities, identifying continuities in the ideas and practices of international governance across the twentieth century, and speaking to a range of pressing theoretical questions in present-day international law and international relations --Front flap of the book
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- From standard-setting to technical assistance -- Into development -- From collective security to peacekeeping -- Into international executive rule -- From reconstruction to development -- Into governance -- Conclusion.
Note:
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