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What kills international organisations? When and why international organisations terminate:

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In this article, the authors address the puzzle of why, and under what conditions, international organisations cease to exist and provide rich explanations for the creation, design, and termination of international organisations.
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This article addresses the puzzle of why, and under what conditions, international organisations cease to exist. International Relations literature offers rich explanations for the creation, design...

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Institutional design for a post-liberal order: why some international organizations live longer than others:

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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Why do states in conflict with each other also sustain resilient cooperation in international regulation? Britain and telegraphy, 1860s–1914:

TL;DR: In this article, the explanatory power of five mainstream theories from International Relations, political science and public management in understanding why people behave differently when they are engaged in deep learning is compared. And they are compared in terms of explanatory power.
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Ordering global governance complexes: The evolution of the governance complex for international civil aviation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how states can mitigate conflict within Global Governance Complexes (GGCs) by dissolving or merging existing institutions or by reconfiguring their mandates, and explore how order in complexity can emerge through bottom-up processes of adaptation in lieu of state-led reform.
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Decision-making in international organizations: institutional design and performance

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of institutional design, pointing to how majoritarian decision rules, delegation of authority to supranational institutions, and access for transnational actors (TNAs) interact to affect decision-making.
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International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

TL;DR: The authors argue that norms evolve in a three-stage "life cycle" of emergence, cascades, and internalization, and that each stage is governed by different motives, mechanisms, and behavioral logics.
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Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualized path dependence as a social process grounded in a dynamic of increasing returns, and demonstrated that increasing returns processes are likely to be prevalent and that good analytical foundations exist for exploring their causes and consequences.
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Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

Paul Pierson
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors place politics in time and place it in the context of social science inquiry. But they do not discuss the role of time in the process of institution design.
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The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders

TL;DR: The authors argue that the tendency of students of international political order to emphasize efficient histories and consequential bases for action leads them to underestimate the significance of rule-and identity-based action and inefficient histories.
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The Study of Critical Junctures: Theory, Narrative, and Counterfactuals in Historical Institutionalism

TL;DR: The authors reconstructs the concept of critical junctures, delimits its range of application, and provides methodological guidance for its use in historical institutional analyses, and addresses specific issues relevant to both cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons of critical junction points.
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What kills international organisations? When and why international organisations terminate?

The paper addresses the question of why and under what conditions international organizations cease to exist. It provides explanations for the termination of international organizations but does not explicitly mention what kills them.