Book Review

Rules for the World: global Organisations in Global Politics by Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Cornell University Press (2004). Reviewed by Avijeet Kumar Biswas Pondicherry University Department of Politics and external Studies breakside(a) Organisations Paper 31st October 2011 In the present world Scenario, International Organisations (IOs) may be growing in significance scarcely in so far realists find enough events to unwaveringly ground IOs to states and state interests. In Rules for the world Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore con preceding these realist claims. A novel approach to IOs is rear in this sacred scripture where the authors emphasise at the Bureaucratic aspects of IOs which, correspond to them, play a major role at shape the behaviour and define the ways IOs are. In three possibility studies of IOs and discussion of the bureaucratic dynamics associated with their operations, the authors aim to demonstrate that policy outcomes in the internationalist sphere cannot be fully tacit without opening out the b deprivation box of IOs. They provide us with some(prenominal) insights into the nature of operations, influence, familiarity, and dysfunction of IOs and most importantly the peculiar(prenominal) ways in which IOs exercise power.

Critiques would emphasise at the lose of enforcement authority of IOs, disregards for the standard provided by IOs to the states and IOs weakness in front of states resistance. The authors say that such animadversions overlook the important ways in which IOs shape the conditions beneath which states operate. They argue tha t IOs create social humankind through their! qualification to set the terms for debate, generate schemes of smorgasbord and definition, and set norms and standards. though they agree to the fact that IOs might lack autonomy as they cannot do anything without some state influence, moreover they might halt the autonomy to influence state preferences. ultimately the authors argue against the criticism that states always prefer limited autonomy for...If you want to engage a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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