International Organization in the Anarchical Society

This edited volume takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School’s conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society. Based on legal and constructivist ideas, the authors develop a theoretical model that sees primary and secondary institutions as shared understandings enmeshed in observable historical processes of constitution, reproduction and regulation. Hitherto, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organizations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materializations of primary institutions. This book not only demonstrates how primary institutions frame secondary organizations and regimes, but also how secondary institutions construct agencies with capacities that impinge upon and can change primary institutions, providing case studies to illuminate the theory. The model presented identifies the political mechanisms that lead to continuity and change in the foundation of international institutions and accounts for the political nature of international society more broadly.

• ISBN: 978-3-319-71621-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 07/04/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés