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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338040603321

Titolo

International Organization in the Anarchical Society : The Institutional Structure of World Order / / edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen, Cornelia Navari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-71622-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 368 p. 6 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in International Relations

Disciplina

341.2

Soggetti

International relations

International law

International organization

Political science

European Union

International Relations Theory

Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations

International Organization

Political Theory

European Union Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School’s conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society. It theorizes their nature through an analysis of the relationship of primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorizing, and provides case studies to illuminate the theory. 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. Building on legal and constructivist arguments about the constitutive character of



institutions, it 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. Based on legal and constructivist ideas, it develops a theoretical model that sees primary and secondary institutions as shared understandings enmeshed in observable historical processes of constitution, reproduction and regulation. Tonny Brems Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.  Cornelia Navari is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK.