International Organizations under Pressure
| Item Type | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
| Abstract | In this paper, I examine to what extent the notion of ‘pressure’ helps to make sense of a range of phenomena that international organizations have (more or less) recently come to confront. In the first part, I trace the elements of ‘pressure’. I argue that they include the interaction of a force and an object to which that force is applied, an ‘if-not’ component that implies adverse consequences when the object fails to adequately adapt to the force, and a sense of unease at the prospect of such consequences. Taken together, the three elements boil down to the question ‘why we still need’ an international organization. In the second part, I examine the argument that international organizations have come under pressure in recent years because the gap between adaptive needs and adaptive capacities has widened. This argument suggests that while the environment in which international organizations are embedded requires them to adapt more frequently, more fundamentally and more quickly, international organizations themselves have become more cumbersome over time. |
| Authors | Dingwerth, Klaus |
| Projects | Dingwerth, Klaus & Weise, Tobias (2010) Von der internationalen Politik zum globalen Regieren: Der Wandel der Governance-Norm [fundamental research project] Official URL |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | social sciences political science |
| HSG Classification | contribution to scientific community |
| Date | 14 September 2017 |
| Event Title | 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations “The Politics of International Studies in an Age of Crises” |
| Event Location | Barcelona, Spain |
| Event Dates | 13-16 September 2017 |
| Depositing User | Prof. Dr. Klaus Dingwerth |
| Date Deposited | 19 Sep 2017 10:22 |
| Last Modified | 20 Jul 2022 17:32 |
| URI: | https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/251770 |
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