To reform the world : international organizations and the making of modern states /
Sinclair, Guy Fiti,
To reform the world : international organizations and the making of modern states / Guy Fiti Sinclair. - First edition. - xviii, 342 pages ; 24 cm. - The history and theory of international law . - History and theory of international law. .
"Table of cases": page xii. "Table of treaties": page xv.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-331) and index.
From standard-setting to technical assistance -- Into development -- From collective security to peacekeeping -- Into international executive rule -- From reconstruction to development -- Into governance -- Introduction -- Conclusion.
The book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by law. The proposed book will contend that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally, most often in the Global South, in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within and interactions among states, societies, and peoples on a broadly Western, liberal model. Adopting a historical and interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach, it supports this claim through detailed investigations of historical episodes involving three very different organizations: the International Labour Organization in the interwar period; the United Nations in the two decades following the Second World War; and the World Bank from the 1950s through to the 1990s. The book draws on a wide range of original institutional and archival materials, bringing to light little-known aspects of each organization's activities, identifying continuities in the ideas and practices of international governance across the twentieth century, and speaking to a range of pressing theoretical questions in present-day international law and international relations --Front flap of the book.
9780198757962
Internationale Arbeitsorganisation
Vereinte Nationen
Weltbank
International agencies.
International law.
International agencies.
International law.
Einflussnahme
Friedenssicherung
Global Governance
Good Governance
Internationale staatliche Organisation
Mitgliedsstaaten
Modernisierung
Postkolonialismus
Wohlfahrtsstaat
KZ4852 / .S58 2017
341.2
To reform the world : international organizations and the making of modern states / Guy Fiti Sinclair. - First edition. - xviii, 342 pages ; 24 cm. - The history and theory of international law . - History and theory of international law. .
"Table of cases": page xii. "Table of treaties": page xv.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-331) and index.
From standard-setting to technical assistance -- Into development -- From collective security to peacekeeping -- Into international executive rule -- From reconstruction to development -- Into governance -- Introduction -- Conclusion.
The book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by law. The proposed book will contend that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally, most often in the Global South, in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within and interactions among states, societies, and peoples on a broadly Western, liberal model. Adopting a historical and interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach, it supports this claim through detailed investigations of historical episodes involving three very different organizations: the International Labour Organization in the interwar period; the United Nations in the two decades following the Second World War; and the World Bank from the 1950s through to the 1990s. The book draws on a wide range of original institutional and archival materials, bringing to light little-known aspects of each organization's activities, identifying continuities in the ideas and practices of international governance across the twentieth century, and speaking to a range of pressing theoretical questions in present-day international law and international relations --Front flap of the book.
9780198757962
Internationale Arbeitsorganisation
Vereinte Nationen
Weltbank
International agencies.
International law.
International agencies.
International law.
Einflussnahme
Friedenssicherung
Global Governance
Good Governance
Internationale staatliche Organisation
Mitgliedsstaaten
Modernisierung
Postkolonialismus
Wohlfahrtsstaat
KZ4852 / .S58 2017
341.2