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PSCI 5807

Analysis of International Organizations

0.5 credit · Graduate

A research seminar on process and change in contemporary forms of international organization.

2026

Readings

  • Abbott, K. & Snidal, D. (1998), “Why States Act Through Formal International Organizations”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(1): 3-32.
  • Barnett, M. N. & Finnemore, M. (1999), “The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations”, International Organization 53(4), pp. 699-732.
  • Finnemore, M. (1993), “International Organizations as Teachers of Norms”, International Organization 47(4): 565-597.
  • Hawkins, D.G. et al. (2006), “Delegation Under Anarchy: States, International Organizations, and Principal-Agent Theory”, in: Hawkins et al. (eds.) Delegation and Agency in International
  • Organizations. Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-38.
  • Koch, M. (2015), “World Organizations. (Re-)Conceptualizing International Organizations”, World Political Science 11(1): 97-131.
  • Geiger M & Koch M (2018), “World Organizations in Migration Politics: The International Organization for Migration”, Journal of International Organizations Studies 9(1): 23-42.
  • Supplementary readings: Barnett, M. N. & Finnemore, M. (2004), “International Organization as Bureaucracies”, in: Barnett, M. N. & Finnemore, M., Rules for the World. International Organizations in Global
  • Politics. Cornell University Press, pp. 16-45.
  • Ellis, D.C. (2010), “The Organizational Turn in International Organization Theory”, Journal of International Organizations Studies 1(1): 11–28.
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