International Organization in the Anarchical Society : The Institutional Structure of World Order

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 Knudsenis Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. Cornelia Navariis Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: A New Approach to International Organization (Cornelia Navari, Tonny Brems Knudsen)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations: Theorizing Continuity and Change (Tonny Brems Knudsen)....Pages 23-50 Modelling the Relations of Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations (Cornelia Navari)....Pages 51-75 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 Institutional Constraints and Institutional Tensions in the Reform of the UN Security Council (Charlotta Friedner Parrat)....Pages 79-98 Institutionalising Morality: The UN Security Council and the Fundamental Norms of the International Legal Order (Dennis R. Schmidt)....Pages 99-125 International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society (Peter Wilson, Joanne Yao)....Pages 127-148 China, Great Power Management, and Climate Change: Negotiating Great Power Climate Responsibility in the UN (Sanna Kopra)....Pages 149-173 Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations: Solidarist Architecture (Tonny Brems Knudsen)....Pages 175-202 Competing Norms and Norm Change: Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health in the World Trade Organization (Eero Palmujoki)....Pages 203-230 Front Matter ....Pages 231-231 Global International Society, Regional International Societies and Regional International Organizations: A Dataset of Primary Institutions (Filippo Costa Buranelli)....Pages 233-263 The European Union Between Solidarist Change and Pluralist Re-Enactment (Bettina Ahrens)....Pages 265-292 Primary and Secondary Institutions in Regional International Society: Sovereignty and the League of Arab States (Raslan Ibrahim)....Pages 293-319 Primary Institutional Dynamics and the Emergence of Regional Governance in Southeast Asia: Constructing Post-Colonial International Societies (Kilian Spandler)....Pages 321-355 Back Matter ....Pages 357-368 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 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 theorises their nature through an analysis of the relationship of primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorising, and provides case studies to illuminate the theory. Hitherto, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organisations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materialisations 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