International organizations and the management of transboundary crises

Abstract

Transboundary crises are a key challenge for global governance in the 21st century. While international organizations (IOs) are central to the management of such crises, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has also laid bare their institutional and political vulnerabilities. The pattern is more general: While in some cases IOs are strengthened to cope with a crisis, in others they are weakened. Sometimes IOs collaborate within and across issue-areas, sometimes they conflict. And sometimes they are complemented or superseded by ad hoc and/or informal governance arrangements. This panel calls for papers which explore the role of IOs in addressing transboundary crises, analyze the factors that may explain their conduct, and assess future trajectories for IOs governance in a post-COVID world.

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