Contestation Management in International Organizations

Abstract

International organizations (IOs) today face fierce contestation. Rising powers challenge the legitimacy and distributional consequences of existing international institutions created by and for Western states. Contestation also emanates from within the West, where multilateral cooperation is increasingly questioned by constituencies. As the institutional landscape has become denser, IOs also compete for mandates and scarce resources. While the drivers of IO contestation are increasingly well understood, this shifts the perspective to IOs’ responses to contestation: Who responds to IO contestation? How do powerful member state governments or autonomous IO administrations manage contestation? When are powerful member state governments or autonomous IO administrations successful in managing contestation? To advance our understanding of contestation management in IOs, and thus their resilience in times of intense pressure, we welcome contributions from different theoretical perspectives employing both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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