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Rules for the world : international organizations in global politics / Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore.

Title
Rules for the world : international organizations in global politics / Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore.
Author
Barnett, Michael N., 1960-
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Finnemore, Martha
Description
xi, 226 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
An innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. The authors argue against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of state.
Subject
  • Conference on Disarmament
  • International Agencies
  • International Monetary Fund
  • International agencies
  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • United Nations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-222) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Bureaucratizing world politics -- International organizations as bureaucracies -- Expertise and power at the International Monetary Fund -- Defining refugees and voluntary repatriation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees -- Genocide and the peacekeeping culture at the United Nations -- The legitimacy of an expanding global bureaucracy.
ISBN
  • 0801440904 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801488230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004010509
OCLC
55109038
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library