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

International Law

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

Edited by Negar Mansouri · Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
Cambridge University Press June 2025

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9781009552615
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Cambridge University Press
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June 2025
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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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