Overview
- Analyzes the relationship between primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorizing
- Develops a unique theoretical model based on legal and constructivist ideas
- Uses case studies to illustrate theory of international organizations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)
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This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School’s conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society. It theorizes their nature through an analysis of the relationship of primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorizing, and provides case studies to illuminate the theory. Hitherto, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organizations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materializations of primary institutions. Building on legal and constructivist arguments about the constitutive character of institutions, it demonstrates how primary institutions frame secondary organizations and regimes, but also how secondary institutions construct agencies with capacities that impinge upon and can change primary institutions. Based on legal and constructivist ideas, it develops a theoretical model thatsees primary and secondary institutions as shared understandings enmeshed in observable historical processes of constitution, reproduction and regulation.
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Keywords
- The English School
- Constructivism
- Primary Institutions
- Regional International Organizations
- Global International Society
- United Nations Economic Sanctions
- United Nations Security Council
- World Trade Organization
- Arab League
- Normative Boundaries
- Fundamental Institutions
- Secondary Institutions
- Southeast Asia
- Great Power Management
- United Nations Reform
- Pluralism
- Sovereignty
- Pluralists
- Solidarists
- Neorealism
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global International Organizations and Fundamental Institutions
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Front Matter
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Regional International Organizations and Fundamental Institutions
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tonny Brems Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Cornelia Navari is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Organization in the Anarchical Society
Book Subtitle: The Institutional Structure of World Order
Editors: Tonny Brems Knudsen, Cornelia Navari
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71622-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71621-3Published: 05 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10084-1Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71622-0Published: 23 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 368
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations Theory, Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, International Organization, Political Theory, European Union Politics