03725nam 2200673Ia 450 991045230990332120200520144314.00-8014-6510-91-322-50292-70-8014-6516-810.7591/9780801465161(CKB)2550000000100467(OCoLC)797829111(CaPaEBR)ebrary10559188(SSID)ssj0000739133(PQKBManifestationID)11401802(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000739133(PQKBWorkID)10689337(PQKB)10771499(MiAaPQ)EBC3138339(DE-B1597)527328(OCoLC)1105856502(DE-B1597)9780801465161(OCoLC)1166355679(MdBmJHUP)muse58522(Au-PeEL)EBL3138339(CaPaEBR)ebr10559188(CaONFJC)MIL681574(OCoLC)922998249(EXLCZ)99255000000010046720040504d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRules for the world[electronic resource] international organizations in global politics /Michael Barnett and Martha FinnemoreIthaca, NY Cornell University Press20041 online resource (241 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-4090-4 0-8014-8823-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-222) and index.Bureaucratizing world politics -- International organizations as bureaucracies -- Expertise and power at the International Monetary Fund -- Defining refugees and voluntary repatriation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees -- Genocide and the peacekeeping culture at the United Nations -- The legitimacy of an expanding global bureaucracy.Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett and Finnemore maintain, such bureaucracies can become obsessed with their own rules, producing unresponsive, inefficient, and self-defeating outcomes. Authority thus gives international organizations autonomy and allows them to evolve and expand in ways unintended by their creators.Barnett and Finnemore reinterpret three areas of activity that have prompted extensive policy debate: the use of expertise by the IMF to expand its intrusion into national economies; the redefinition of the category "refugees" and decision to repatriate by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and the UN Secretariat's failure to recommend an intervention during the first weeks of the Rwandan genocide. By providing theoretical foundations for treating these organizations as autonomous actors in their own right, Rules for the World contributes greatly to our understanding of global politics and global governance.International agenciesElectronic books.International agencies.341.2ML 1000rvkBarnett Michael N.1960-478620Finnemore Martha562984MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452309903321Rules for the world2487426UNINA