Cooperation under autonomy: Building and analyzing the Informal Intergovernmental Organizations 2.0 dataset:
Felicity Vabulas,Duncan Snidal +1 more
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The IIGO 2.0 dataset is presented, the most comprehensive compilation of these institutions to date, and the significance of IIGOs is illustrated through several key empirical findings.Abstract:
Informal intergovernmental organizations (IIGOs) such as the Proliferation Security Initiative and G20 increasingly play a central role in governing international relations. IIGOs are based on recu...read more
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Institutional design for a post-liberal order: why some international organizations live longer than others:
Maria J. Debre,Hylke Dijkstra +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors theorize that institutional characteristics help to expander the liberal international order, which is the talk of the town in many international organizations (IOs) today.
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Informal governance in world politics
TL;DR: In this article, three types of informality in world politics: Informality of institutions, within institutions, and around institutions are discussed and differentiating among them provides novel insights into the causes of informal global governance and candidate independent variables which, individually and in combination, should allow researchers to explain the striking variation in the growth and distribution of informal governance in world affairs.
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대량살상무기확산방지구상(Proliferation Security Initiative)의 국제법적 분석
Abstract: The Bush administration's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is a multilateral strategy to interdict shipments of weapons of mass destruction and related delivery systems. Still in its infancy, the PSI has already been subjected to two opposing lines of criticism. Some see it as a leaky sieve, unlikely to trap any sensitive items; others fear that it will be a pervasive dragnet, tantamount to a naval blockade that, in the case of North Korea, risks inciting war.
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The global governance complexity cube: Varieties of institutional complexity in global governance
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Who Gets to Live Forever? An Institutional Theory on the Life and Death of International Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual and theoretical perspective on the decline and death of international organizations, and outline an institutional theory on international organizations' life-cycle, which helps to understand why, subject to similar external pressures, some international organizations decline and die where others survive.
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Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics
Michael Barnett,Martha Finnemore +1 more
TL;DR: The Legitimacy of an Expanding Global Bureaucracy as discussed by the authors is an example of such an expansion of global bureaucracies, and it has been studied extensively in the literature.
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The Rational Design of International Institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that international actors are goal-seeking agents who make specific institutional design choices to solve the particular cooperation problems they face in different issue-areas, and draw on rational choice theory to develop empirically falsifiable conjectures that explain this institutional variation.
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Hard and Soft Law in International Governance
Kenneth W. Abbott,Duncan Snidal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine why international actors, including states, firms, and activists, create different types of legalized arrangements to solve political and substantive problems and show how particular forms of legalization provide superior institutional solutions in different circumstances.
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Hard and Soft Law in International Governance
Kenneth W. Abbott,Duncan Snidal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine why international actors seek different types of legalized arrangements to solve political and substantive problems and show how particular forms of legalization provide superior institutional solutions in different circumstances.
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Why States Act through Formal International Organizations
Kenneth W. Abbott,Duncan Snidal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine power and distributive questions and the role of formal international organizations in creating norms and understanding, and identify centralization and independence as the key properties of formal organizations.