International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice

by Ian Hurd

• ISBN13: 9780521147378
• ISBN10: 0521147379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

International organizations are at the heart of many global issues today. This new textbook looks at the leading international organizations and explains how they both shape and are shaped by international politics. The book examines three themes: the legal obligations that give international organizations their powers; the mechanisms that elicit compliance by their member states; and the practices of enforcement in the organization. Each chapter shows how international organizations work in practice and the interactions between them and their member states. This fresh text provides a comprehensive understanding of what international organizations do, how and why they do it, and the challenges they face.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction to international organizations	p. 1
A guide to the study of international organizations	p. 15
The World Trade Organization	p. 37
Key GATT clauses	p. 63
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank	p. 66
IMF loan to Argentina (excerpt)	p. 92
World Bank Project loan to Argentina: Urban flood prevention and drainage APL 2, P093491	p. 93
The United Nations I: Law and administration	p. 97
Charter of the United Nations (excerpts)	p. 125
The United Nations II: International peace and security	p. 133
UN Security Council Resolution 678 on Iraq (1990)	p. 158
UN Security Council Resolution 872 on Rwanda (1993)	p. 159
The International Labor Organization	p. 161
Constitution of the International Labor Organization (excerpts)	p. 182
ILO Convention 105, Abolition of Forced Labor, 1957 (excerpts)	p. 184
The International Court of Justice	p. 186
Statute of the International Court of Justice (1949)	p. 209
ICJ Decision, press release (excerpts)	p. 213
The International Criminal Court	p. 217
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)	p. 238
Regional Organizations: EU, AU, and ASEAN	p. 245
Conclusion	p. 267
Index	p. 275
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