Transforming international institutions : how money quietly sidelined multilateralism at the United Nations /
"Transforming International Institutions illuminates how a slow, quiet, subterranean process can produce big, radical change in international institutions and organizations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, it provides a novel theory of uncoord...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Transforming International Institutions illuminates how a slow, quiet, subterranean process can produce big, radical change in international institutions and organizations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, it provides a novel theory of uncoordinated change over time. Early participants in the process do not foresee the transformative potential of their acts, but nonetheless enable subsequent actors to push change in new directions to profound effect. The theory is deployed to explain how changes in UN funding rules in the 1940s and 1960s—perceived as small and made to solve immediate political disagreements—ultimately sidelined multilateral governance at the United Nations in the twenty-first century. The perception of funding rules as marginal to fundamental principles of governance, and the friendly orientation of change-initiators toward the UN, enabled the quiet transformation. Challenging the UN's reputation for rigidity and its status as a bastion of egalitarian multilateralism, Transforming International Institutions demonstrates that the UN System is susceptible to subtle change processes and that its egalitarian multilateralism governs only a fraction of the UN's operational work"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) : illustrations, charts |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198877950 0198877951 9780198877967 019887796X 9780191988486 0191988480 |