Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations

Reinsberg, Bernhard

doi:10.1080/01402382.2024.2341564

West European Politics

2024

DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2024.2341564

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Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations

Bernhard Reinsberg

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Are authoritative international organizations challenged more? A recurrent event analysis of member state criticisms and withdrawals

Dijkstra,

Ghassim

2024

Rev Int Organ

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Member states’ challenges to international organizations (IOs) are at the heart of the supposed crisis of our multilateral order – from the “African bias” debate surrounding the International Criminal Court, to the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” from the European Union, to Trump’s attacks on the World Health Organization during the COVID-19 pandemic. IOs are regularly challenged by their member states in different ways, ranging from verbal criticisms to withdrawals. But why are some IOs challenged more than others? An important – but so far largely theoretical – academic debate relates to the authority of IOs as an explanatory factor for why some face more challenges: Authoritative IOs may invite more challenges (for example, due to domestic contestation) or fewer challenges (due, in part, to the investment of member states and their greater capacity to resolve conflicts internally). Our article assesses these explanations using the Andersen-Gill approach for analyzing recurrent events of member states’ public criticisms and withdrawals. We do not find strong and consistent evidence that more authoritative IOs are more regularly challenged by their own member states. There is some evidence that authoritative IOs experience fewer withdrawals, but we find stronger evidence for alternative factors such as preference heterogeneity between members, the existence of alternative IOs, and the democratic composition of an IO’s membership. Our study is significant for scholarly debates and real-world politics, as it implies that granting IOs more authority does not make them more prone to member state challenges.

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Are authoritative international organizations challenged more? A recurrent event analysis of member state criticisms and withdrawals

Dijkstra,

Ghassim

2024

Rev Int Organ

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The life cycle of international cooperation: Introduction to the special issue

Gray

2024

Rev Int Organ

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International organizations’ lives often extend far beyond the moment of their initial contracting. How IOs do adapt to shifting circumstances in their member states global geopolitical changes, and even internal dynamics within the IO itself? This special issue on the life cycle of international cooperation explores the ebbs and flows of the IOs that underpin the international system. Firm theory, organizational sociology, and agency theory all have incorporated life cycles perspectives into the study of organizations, but IR has yet to fully harness these frameworks. A life cycles approach centers on, first, incorporating the IO itself as the core unit of analysis and, second, the dynamic processes within IOs — including life stages such as false starts, consolidation, inertia, growth, revitalization, death, and succession. Incorporating these dynamic processes into our understanding of IOs reminds us that historically, IOs have always experienced periods of both flourishing and faltering. Grasping the mechanisms that drive these changes is indispensable for a thorough understanding of the international system’s vitality and resilience. Articles in this issue explore the durability of IOs in the face of crises; the measures that IOs deploy to legitimize their existence; the role of individual leaders’ rhetoric in IO vitality; the tradeoffs that member states face between pulling the plug on an IO versus creating a new institution; the effect of member-state IO withdrawal on the international system overall; and the mass public’s perceptions of such withdrawals.

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Cooperators or competitors? The interactions between WHO and the World Bank in global health governance

Zheng,

Jin

2024

Global Public Health

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Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations

Cited by 4 publications

References 83 publications

Are authoritative international organizations challenged more? A recurrent event analysis of member state criticisms and withdrawals

Are authoritative international organizations challenged more? A recurrent event analysis of member state criticisms and withdrawals

The life cycle of international cooperation: Introduction to the special issue

Cooperators or competitors? The interactions between WHO and the World Bank in global health governance

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