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International Organizations A Comparative Approach to the Management of Cooperation
Fourth Edition

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By Robert S. Jordan
With Clive Archer, Gregory P. Granger, and Kerry Ordes

ISBN: 0-275-96550-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96550-1

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304 pages, figures, photos, tables

Praeger Paperback

Publication: 6/30/2001

List Price: $38.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)

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Endorsement From Alan James,Emeritus Professor
Department of International Relations
Keele University, U.K.: International organization textbook writers face a formidable challenge. There are so many organizations, which display huge variety in almost every aspect. One response is to produce a book which is long, descriptive, and dull. Professor Jordon and his associates, however, have chosen a much more difficult route, and traversed it with great skill and success. Their book is short, focuses analytically on a wide range of issues, yet also provides extremely interesting case studies which give the reader a sense of immediate practicality. Above all, the book had the virtue of encouraging the student to sit up and think. The authors are to be very warmly congratulated.
Endorsement From Christopher C. Joyner
Professor of International Law and Government
Georgetown University: This volume provides an extraordinarily useful text for a course in international organizations, as it furnishes a compact, authoritative, and highly readable analysis of how, why, and to what degree international organizations contribute to regularizing the interactions among states and other international actors....The analysis is well balanced between theoretical considerations and real world policy output....[T]his volume emerges as an outstanding contribution to the contemporary literature on international organizations.
Endorsement From John P. Renninger
Director
Asia and the Pacific Division
Department of Political Affairs
United Nations: An extremely timely and well organized text on the evolving and increasingly central role of international organizations in the management of global change. This fourth edition of International Organizations: A Comparative Approach has been prepared by Robert S. Jordan and addresses all the pertinent questions. It will be of great interest to students and practitioners alike.

Description: This new edition of a classic text, comprehensively revised throughout, appraises the emerging challenges to the centrality of the nation-state international system, such as humanitarianism, environmentalism, new international legal standards, and concepts such as "civil society" and "globalism." As inter-governmental and international non-governmental activities are increasingly being blended, for example in the area of peace-keeping, this poses a challenge to the sanctity of the territorial state as the primary political unit. Similarly, technological and social changes such as the emergence of the Internet, encourages "borderless" activities (both legal and illegal) by non-state actors. This book provides the basis for students to consider a thorough rethinking of our international system and its prospects for the future in the face of these fundamental and unprecedented developments. While the book as a whole is built around the unifying theme of "the management of cooperation," illustrative cases enhance the individual chapters and provide the basis for comparative analysis and discussion. These take the reader through the tangled webs of international cooperation in such areas as the European Union, NATO, humanitarian intervention, arms control, transnational criminal organizations, and global environmental issues. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter add to the usefulness of this text for students.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction: The Analysis of International Organizations: An Overview
The Past and the Present
International Organizations as Historical Phenomena
The Predisposition Towards International Organization
International Organization and Administration
Universal International Organizations as Practical Necessities
The Devolution of the Territorial State
The Present and the Future
International Organizations and the Changing Face of War
International Organizational Interactions
Decision-Making: Muddling Through in Search of Global Governance
International Organizations and the Management of Cooperation
Appendix: Official Classification of the UN System
Appendix: Excerpts from the UN Charter
Appendix: IOs by Type (1995-1996); and IOs by Year and Type (1909-1992)
Bibliographical References
Index

LC Card Number: 00-052844

LCC Class: JZ4850

Dewey Class: 341


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