Seeing Like an International Organization

by André Broome (Editor), Leonard Seabrooke (Editor)

Overview

This book contributes to the study of International Organizations (IOs) by providing a sharp focus on how IOs’ "analytic institutions" interact with states over key policy issues. Analytic institutions include the areas, departments, committees, adjudicatory bodies, and others housed by or linked to IOs that develop the cognitive framework for identifying, understanding, and solving policy problems. Analytic institutions make the state "legible" to IOs and are the key means for how IOs "see" their member states, shaping how international political and economic problems are understood. This book investigates why seeing like an IO matters through cases on leading organizations for global economic governance, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, and the World Trade Organization. The contributors demonstrate the benefits of studying IOs "from the inside-out" to enrich our understanding of why issues in the international political economy are governed the way they are.

This book was published as a special issue of New Political Economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138787216
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/18/2014
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

André Broome is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick.

Leonard Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy at the Copenhagen Business School and University of Warwick. Broome and Seabrooke are both researchers on the ‘Global Reordering: Evolution through European Networks’ project from the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme.

Table of Contents

1. Seeing Like an International Organisation André Broome and Leonard Seabrooke

2. Seeing Like the OECD on Tax J.C. Sharman

3. Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty Antje Vetterlein

4. Seeing Like the IMF on Capital Account Liberalisation Manuela Moschella

5. Seeing Like the WTO: Numbers, Frames and Trade Law Jens L. Mortensen

6. Seeing Like the BIS on Capital Rules: Institutionalising Self-regulation in Global Finance Kevin Ozgercin