Divide Et Impera? How International Organisations Govern the World Through Boundary Work

Abstract

IR scholarship increasingly studies boundary work, which organises social systems around categories of difference, underscoring the potential exclusionary and inclusionary effects of boundaries. Although IOs, like many other transnational actors, routinely engage in boundary work and can wield enormous expert power, scholars have not yet systematically examined these practices. Our panel thus invites papers that discuss the motivations for, dynamics of, and effects of IO boundary work across different issue areas.

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