Research Catalog

Title

International organizations : a comparative approach / Werner J. Feld and Robert S. Jordan with Leon Hurwitz.

Author

Feld, Werner J.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Jordan, Robert S., 1929-
• Hurwitz, Leon.

Description

xxiii, 338 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• International agencies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325) and index.

Contents

• Approaches to the Study of International Organization -- 1. Changing Conceptualizations. The Nature of IGOs. Classification of IGOs. IGOs: Patterns of Growth. Historical Flashbacks. The Nature of INGOs. Classification of INGOs. INGO Growth Pattern and Distribution. International Organization and Interdependence. International Organization and International Regimes -- 2. The Creation of Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs). Motivations to Form or Join IGOs. Propensity for International Organization (A Theoretical Model). The UN Family. Regional Organizations in the Developed Countries. Regionalism in Developing Countries. Scope and Structure of New IGOs -- 3. Institutional and Bureaucratic Developments. The Range of Institutional Patterns. Task Performance. IGOs with Plenary Governing Bodies. IGOs with Limited Composition Governing Bodies. IGOs with Adjudicatory Organs. IGO Administration. The Place of Bureaucracies in IGOs. Organizational Ideology.
• 4. Decision-Making Processes and Policymaking Scope. Voting Systems. The Scope and Level of Decisions. A Taxonomy of Decisions. Changes in the Locus of Decision-Making. Output Implementations. Implementation Evaluation -- 5. IGO Interactions with Member States and Other IGOs: The Pursuit of Domestic and Foreign Policy Goals and Attempts at Collective Security. IGOs as Instruments of National Policies. Member Governments' Influence on IGO Decisions. The Role of Coalitions in IGO Interactions. Inter-IGO Relations -- 6. Access to IGO Decision Making: The Role of International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs) and Other Links to IGOs. Achievement of INGO Goals. INGO Influence on Decision Making. Systemic Direct Access -- 7. Incipient Regimes and Multilateralism: A Middle Way between Universalism and Nationalism? Origins. Rights, Rules, and Coherence. Organizational Features. Policy Instruments. Regime Transformation -- 8. The Quality of IGO Task Performance: Past, Present, and Future.
• Appendix A: Membership of the UN and its Specialized and Related Agencies -- Appendix B: Charter of the United Nations -- Appendix C: International Organizations by Type (1992-1993); and International Organizations by Year and Type (1909-1992).

ISBN

• 0275943429 (HB)
• 0275947025 (PB)

LCCN

93017663

OCLC

• 28026817
• ocm28026817

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries