International cooperation in turbulent times: Contestation from within and outside

Abstract

International organizations (IOs) are in crisis. While transnational problems, such as technological progress, climate change, or global pandemics, underline the need of international cooperation, IOs are increasingly challenged. Revisionist powers, such as China and Russia, are seeking to gain more clout within them or even undermine their fundamental principles. At the same time, support from established but declining powers, such as the U.S. or the U.K., is becoming more uncertain in the face of nationalist populism and anti-globalization movements. These challenges put pressure on IOs in an ever-denser institutional landscape, where they compete with each other over competences and evermore scarce resources. To better understand the role IOs can still play today, the contributions to this panel adopt different theoretical and methodological lenses to examine the diverse challenges IOs face today, how they respond to them, and their overall consequences for international cooperation today.

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