Cover -- Half_Title -- The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Table of Cases -- Table of Instruments -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1. International Organizations in World Politics -- The Demand for IOs: What Drives IO Formation? -- Designing IOs: Once IOs Are the Solution-​How Are They Built? -- Deciding which IOs to Join or Act Through -- Operating IOs -- Outcomes -- Conclusion -- 2. International Organizations and International Law -- The Effectiveness of International Organizations -- The Accountability of International Organizations: Law as a Constrainer -- Conclusions: Effectiveness and Accountability in Tune -- 3. The Law and Politics of International Organizations -- Theory -- Conceptual Issues -- Policy Dilemmas -- Conclusion -- Part II History -- 4. International Organizations, 1865-​1945 -- The Crucial Decade of the 1860s and Its Consequences -- Internationalism: People, Ideologies, Platforms, and the Ambivalences of Eurocentrism -- "Thoroughgoing Internationalism": New Actors and New Interactions under the Umbrella of the League of Nations -- Fascist Internationalism and International Organizations during World War II -- Conclusions -- 5. International Organizations, 1945-​Present -- Mainstream History of IOs -- Critical Histories -- Emerging Themes -- Part III Forms of Organization -- 6. Formal Intergovernmental Organizations -- Why Create an International Organization? -- Legal Personality -- The Traditional Elements -- Powers? -- Conclusion -- 7. Supranational Organizations -- 8. Private Transnational Governance -- The Privatization of Transnational Governance and Its Limits -- Endogenous Growth of Private Governance -- Conclusion -- Part IV Activities of Organizations -- 9. Peace Operations.

Definitions -- Evolving Mandates -- Interpositional Peacekeeping -- Multidimensional Peace Operations -- Success, Failure, and the Brahimi Report -- Civilian Protection, Peace Enforcement, and R2P -- Mission Composition -- Efficacy -- Conclusion -- 10. Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime -- The Emergence of Transgovernmental Policing Networks -- Counter-​Narcotics: Hegemonic Criminal Law -- Financial Crime: Hegemonic Criminal Law Goes Multi-​Sectoral -- Counterterrorism: Transgovernmental Networks Built on Hegemonic Foundations -- Transnational Organized Crime: A Patchwork of Solutions -- Resource Trafficking: A Multi-​Sectoral Approach -- Counter-​Piracy: Mixing Transgovernmentalism and Multilateralism -- Conclusion -- 11. Non-​Proliferation and Disarmament -- The Long and Winding Road to the NPT -- The UNSC and the Non-​Proliferation Regime -- Informal Arrangements -- Three Challenges -- Three Responses -- Conclusion -- 12. Human Rights -- Organizations and Activities Prior to the United Nations -- Human Rights in the UN Charter and Charter Bodies -- Other Global Organizations -- Regional Organizations -- Conclusion -- 13. Criminal Justice -- The Role of International Organizations in the Creation of International and Hybrid Criminal Tribunals -- Structural and Substantive Law Comparison of the Tribunals -- Conclusion -- 14. Humanitarian Action -- Some Definitions -- Three Historical Periods -- Who Comes to the Rescue? -- Conclusion: Coordination, a Fool's Errand? -- 15. Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons -- Refugees and IDPs: Similarities and Differences -- Refugees: The UNHCR and the Evolution of the Refugee Regime -- The UNHCR's Normative Agenda -- Political and Financial Constraints on the UNHCR -- IDPs: The Evolution of an International Institutional Framework.

Key Policy Challenges: Failure of Durable Solutions and the Rise of Protracted Displacement -- Key Policy Challenges: The UNHCR's Dependence on Funding and Cooperation from States -- Key Policy Challenges: The Refugee Regime Complex -- Key Policy Challenges: Changing Trends in Forced Migration -- IDPs: Current Challenges and Emerging Issues -- Toward a More Effective Response to Refugees and IDPs -- 16. Trade -- Functions of International Law of Trade and Functions of International Organizations for Trade -- Structure of the WTO -- Free Trade Areas and Customs Unions -- Conclusion: Relating Structure to Function -- 17. International Finance -- Political Fragmentation: Who Does What in Global Financial Governance -- Financial Stability as a Shared Responsibility -- Where Does Interinstitutional Conflict Come From? -- Conclusions -- 18. Economic Relations and Integration -- The Design and Development of Regional Economic Integration -- Economic Theory -- Intergovernmentalism and Rationalist Institutionalism -- Supranationalism and Historical Institutionalism -- Constructivism and Sociological Institutionalism -- Conclusion -- 19. Development -- The UN and Bretton Woods -- Nontraditional Actors -- Transitions -- Conclusion -- 20. Environment -- United Nations System -- UN Specialized Agencies and Related Organizations -- Non-​UN Organizations -- Cooperative Programs of Existing Organizations -- Freestanding Multilateral Environmental Regimes -- Bilateral and Regional Agreements -- International Environmental Institutional and Regulatory Toolbox -- Conclusion -- 21. Health -- International Organizations and Global Health Governance -- The World Health Organization -- Normative Functions -- Technical Collaboration -- Financing -- Coordination and Coherence -- Conclusion -- 22. Labor.

Difficult Terrain: Five Dimensions of "Labor" as a Subject Matter for International Organizations -- The ILO -- The Labor Debate in Other Interstate Organizations- ​The World Trade Organization -- The Market in Labor Rights -- Conclusion -- 23. Religion -- The 'Resurgence' of Religion -- Religious International Organizations -- International Organizations and Religion -- Conclusion -- 24. Democracy Promotion -- Approaches to Democracy Promotion -- Normative Roots -- Operational Activities -- Impact of Operational Activities on International Law -- Conclusion -- 25. Communications and the Internet -- Global Liberalization of Telecommunications Services -- Four Types of International Organizations -- The Institutionalization of Internet Governance -- Conclusion -- Part V The Functions of International Organizations -- 26. Lawmaking -- Organizations as Lawmakers -- The Inadequacies of Traditional Sources of International Law -- Lawmaking by Organizations -- A Source of International Law? -- Conclusion -- 27. Monitoring Processes -- A Survey of Monitoring Provisions in International Agreements -- Explaining the Design of Monitoring Provisions -- Conclusion -- 28. Sanctions -- How United Nations Sanctions Work -- How EU Sanctions Work -- The Contest between Politics and the Rule of Law in International Organization Sanctions -- Conclusion -- 29. Use of Force -- The League as an Organization against War -- The United Nations Organization as a System of Collective Security -- Hierarchies within the Organizations in Relation to the Use of Force -- Regional Organizations and Arrangements -- Conclusion -- 30. Dispute Settlement -- Dispute Settlement Not Based on Application of Legal Principles -- Dispute Settlement Based on Application of Legal Principles -- Conclusion -- 31. Information Gathering, Analysis, and Dissemination.

Mandates as a Way of Understanding the Type and Content of Information Managed by International Organizations -- Information Gathering, Analysis, and Dissemination -- Assessing the Performance of International Institutions in Producing, Using, and Disseminating Information -- The Way Ahead: Some Opportunities and Challenges for IOs Related to Information -- Part VI Relationships of International Organizations with Other Actors -- 32. Relations with Other International Organizations -- Elements of the Relationships between International Organizations -- Public-​Private Partnerships as a Means of Diversifying Relationships -- Participation of the European Union in International Organizations:  Need for Adaptation from Other International Organizations -- Relationships with Other International Organizations and Responsibility Issues -- Concluding Remarks: From an Interstate Model to an Inter-​International Organizations Model -- 33. Relations with Civil Society -- What Is Civil Society? -- Civil Society Involvement in Global Governance -- Theories of Civil Society and Global Governance -- Impacts of Civil Society on Global Governance -- Civil Society and Legitimacy in Global Governance -- Conclusion -- 34. Relations with the Private Sector -- Contextual Factors Shaping UN-​Private Sector Relations -- The First Six Decades of the UN-​Private Sector Relationships (1945-​2000) -- A New Beginning on the UN-​Private Sector Relationships (2000-​Present) -- Institutional Developments -- Economic Developments -- Political Developments -- Outlook for the Future -- Part VII Structure and Operations -- 35. General Assemblies and Assemblies of States Parties -- Historical Roots -- The League of Nations -- The UN General Assembly -- The UN Specialized Agencies and Other UN Bodies -- Regional Organizations: Limited Application.

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The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations provides an authoritative account of the law and politics of international organizations. Looking at the role, function, and history of organizations, this Handbook offers a wide ranging and thorough analysis of the area.

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