International Organizations

Politics, Law, Practice
5. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-00-941408-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 375 Seiten

International organizations are increasingly important to global politics, law, and culture. Now in its fifth edition, this leading textbook provides the definitive introduction to modern international organizations by examining a dozen prominent global institutions. With a mix of legal, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the author examines timely cases where IOs are in the headlines today including on migration, Brexit, trade wars, and border disputes. This new edition is fully revised and updated, featuring new chapters on how global sports are organized by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee. The book explains the power and limits of international organizations by seeing how their legal authority interacts with politics in real-world controversies. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in international organizations, international institutions, global governance, and international law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hurd, Ian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to international organizations; 2. Theory, methods, and international organizations; 3. The United Nations I: law and administration; 4. The United Nations II: international peace and security; 5. The World Trade Organization; 6. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; 7. The International Labor Organization; 8. The World Health Organization; 9. Refugees and international migration: UNHCR, the IOM, and the 1951 Convention; 10. The International Court of Justice; 11. The International Criminal Court; 12. The European Union and regional organizations; 13. FIFA, the IOC, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Hurd, Ian
Ian Hurd is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University, where he teaches international politics and law. His research combines contemporary global affairs with attention to the conceptual frames used to make sense of the world. His previous books include How to Do Things with International Law (2017), After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the UN Security Council (2007), which won the 2008 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (co-editor, 2017), and The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority (co-editor, 2008). He has been a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, Sciences Po in Paris, and elsewhere, and is past-Chair of the International Organization section of the International Studies Association.