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Sungjoon Cho

2009

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An Identity Crisis Of International Organizations, Sungjoon Cho Feb 2009

An Identity Crisis Of International Organizations, Sungjoon Cho

Sungjoon Cho

An Identity Crisis of International Organizations

Abstract

International organizations (IOs) are ubiquitous. More than two hundred IOs touch our everyday lives, ranging banking to flu-shots. However, conventional political scientists seldom pay sufficient attention to IOs which they thoroughly deserve given their contemporary prominence. Because conventional international relations (IR) theories consider IOs as mere passive machineries, they hardly offer a satisfactory explanation on a distinctive mode of IOs’ institutional dynamic, in which a specific IO, as a separate and autonomous organic entity, grows, evolves and eventually makes sense of its own existence. This Essay offers a novel perspective which attempts to …