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Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law

Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law

Author: Negar Mansouri; Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009552615

Published In: June 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781009552622

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For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional law'- has been marked by an intellectual quietism. Most of the scholarship tends to focus narrowly on providing 'legal' answers to 'legal' questions. For that reason, perspectives rarely engage with the insights of critical traditions of legal thought (for instance, feminist, postcolonial, or political economy-oriented perspectives) or with interdisciplinary contributions produced outside the field.

Ways of Seeing International Organisations challenges the narrow gaze of the field by bringing together authors across multiple disciplines to reflect on the need for 'new' perspectives in international institutional law. Highlighting the limits of mainstream approaches, the authors instead interrogate international organisations as pivots in processes of world-making. To achieve this, the volume is organised around four fundamental themes: expertise; structure; performance; and capital.

Part I. Thinking International Organisations Differently:

1. Seeing international organisations differently

Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín

2. Critical theory and international organisations: the need for an integrated approach

B. S. Chimni

3. Inter-disciplinarity and the law of international organizations

Jan Klabbers

Part II. Ways of Seeing International Institutions: Expertise, Authority, & Knowledge Production:

4. Studying the assembling of expertise in global governance

Annabelle Littoz-Monnet

5. Experts, practices, power: the work of international criminal court reform

Richard Clements

6. Drawing the contours of hidden hunger as an object of governance

Juanita Uribe

Structures, Spaces, & Jurisdictions:

7. The puzzle of freedom: structure and agency in international adjudication

Tommaso Soave

8. Reassembling transnational legal conflicts across global institutions: ethnographic perspectives on claims of authority over the Mediterranean Sea

Kiri Santer

9. Placeholders: an archival journey into the interim histories of international organisations

Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín

People, Practices, & Performance:

10. The micro-politics of international commissions: the case of telegraphic standards

Jan Eijking

11. Keeping up standards for a better world: anthropological alternatives to the study of international organisations

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari

12. 'The critic is not the one who debunks, but the one who assembles': on professional performances and material practices

Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

Capital, Class, & Political Economy:

13. Laissez faire, state capitalism, and the making of international organizations: the dynamics of a struggle

Negar Mansouri

14. Deconstructing 'resilience talk' in global governance: toward a critical political economy approach

A. Claire Cutler

15. A white knight in shining armor? Ethiopia, international organisations, and the global colour line

Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín

Part III. Conclusion:

16: Examining elephants in the dark

Guy Fiti Sinclair

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