International Organization in the Anarchical Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: A New Approach to International Organization

   • Cornelia Navari, Tonny Brems Knudsen

   Pages 1-20

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3. Theoretical Investigations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations: Theorizing Continuity and Change

      • Tonny Brems Knudsen

      Pages 23-50

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   3. Modelling the Relations of Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations

      • Cornelia Navari

      Pages 51-75

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4. Global International Organizations and Fundamental Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Institutional Constraints and Institutional Tensions in the Reform of the UN Security Council

      • Charlotta Friedner Parrat

      Pages 79-98

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   3. Institutionalising Morality: The UN Security Council and the Fundamental Norms of the International Legal Order

      • Dennis R. Schmidt

      Pages 99-125

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   4. International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society

      • Peter Wilson, Joanne Yao

      Pages 127-148

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   5. China, Great Power Management, and Climate Change: Negotiating Great Power Climate Responsibility in the UN

      • Sanna Kopra

      Pages 149-173

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   6. Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations: Solidarist Architecture

      • Tonny Brems Knudsen

      Pages 175-202

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   7. Competing Norms and Norm Change: Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health in the World Trade Organization

      • Eero Palmujoki

      Pages 203-230

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5. Regional International Organizations and Fundamental Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. Global International Society, Regional International Societies and Regional International Organizations: A Dataset of Primary Institutions

      • Filippo Costa Buranelli

      Pages 233-263

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   3. The European Union Between Solidarist Change and Pluralist Re-Enactment

      • Bettina Ahrens

      Pages 265-292

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   4. Primary and Secondary Institutions in Regional International Society: Sovereignty and the League of Arab States

      • Raslan Ibrahim

      Pages 293-319

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   5. Primary Institutional Dynamics and the Emergence of Regional Governance in Southeast Asia: Constructing Post-Colonial International Societies

      • Kilian Spandler

      Pages 321-355

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6. Back Matter

   Pages 357-368

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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. 

• 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

• Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

  Tonny Brems Knudsen

• University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

  Cornelia Navari

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.

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