21st Century International Organizations: Power, Politics, and Global Policy Making

This Section addresses various aspects of the design, dynamics, evolution and impact of international organizations (IOs) in the challenging political and societal landscape of the early 21st century. The Section’s Panels raise questions about if, how and why state power, bureaucratic politics, or stakeholder groups, among other things, influence IOs at the global and regional level and across fields. Papers encompass a diverse set of IOs – global and regional IOs, formal and informal IOs, traditional IOs and new multi-stakeholder partnerships – in a variety of policy domains. The Section explicitly encourages theoretical, conceptual, methodological and empirical conversations within and between different (sub-)disciplines interested in IOs, from International Relations and International Public Administration to Global History, International Political Economy or Global Public Policy.