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International Organization in the Anarchical Society

The Institutional Structure of World Order

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Editors:
  1. Tonny Brems Knudsen

    1. Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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  2. Cornelia Navari

    1. University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

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  • 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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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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

  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

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

      • Dennis R. Schmidt
      Pages 99-125

    4. International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society

      • Peter Wilson, Joanne Yao
      Pages 127-148

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

      • Sanna Kopra
      Pages 149-173

    6. Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations: Solidarist Architecture

      • Tonny Brems Knudsen
      Pages 175-202

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

      • Eero Palmujoki
      Pages 203-230

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 357-368
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Tonny Brems Knudsen

  • University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

    Cornelia Navari

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.

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