Transforming International Institutions
How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at The United Nations
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2023
- ISBN 9780198877943
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156x11 mm
- Weight 350 g
- Language English 483
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Short description:
Transforming International Institutions illuminates how a slow, quiet, subterranean process can produce big, radical, change in international institutions and organizations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, Graham provides a novel theory of uncoordinated change over time.
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Transforming International Institutions illuminates how a slow, quiet, subterranean process can produce big, radical change in international institutions and organizations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, Graham provides a novel theory of uncoordinated change over time. It highlights how early participants in a process who do not foresee the transformative potential of their acts, but nonetheless enable subsequent actors to push change in new directions to profound effect.
Graham deploys this to explain how changes in UN funding rules in the 1940s and 1960s—perceived as small and made to solve immediate political disagreements—ultimately sidelined multilateral governance at the United Nations in the twenty-first century. The perception of funding rules as marginal to fundamental principles of governance, and the friendly orientation of change-initiators toward the UN, enabled this quiet transformation.
Challenging the UN's reputation for rigidity and its status as a bastion of egalitarian multilateralism, Transforming International Institutions demonstrates that the UN system is susceptible to subtle change processes and that its egalitarian multilateralism governs only a fraction of the UN's operational work.
Transforming International Institutions is a tour de force that cements Erin Graham as one of the most important and innovative voices in International Relations. In this timely, well-researched, and theoretically innovative study of the United Nations, Graham revisits traditional understandings of how change takes place in the world's leading organization. With deep anchors in historical institutionalism, Graham meticulously documents a quiet revolution in the UN from an organization that was multilateral in theory and practice to an organization where a small number of states control agendas by means of earmarked budgets. This is a must-read for global governance scholars and practitioners who will benefit equally from Graham's historical research and analysis of the contemporary period.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
How International Institutions Transform
Vision over Visibility: Designing the United Nations Charter
Voluntary Funding and Financial Crisis
Creative Cracks in Multilateralism
Tighten the Screws and Bilateral Contracts
Conclusion: What is the UN and Where is it Going
