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Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett and Finnemore maintain, such bureaucracies can become obsessed with their own rules, producing unresponsive, inefficient, and self-defeating outcomes. Authority thus gives international organizations autonomy and allows them to evolve and expand in ways unintended by their creators.Barnett and Finnemore reinterpret three areas of activity that have prompted extensive policy debate: the use of expertise by the IMF to expand its intrusion into national economies; the redefinition of the category "refugees" and decision to repatriate by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and the UN Secretariat's failure to recommend an intervention during the first weeks of the Rwandan genocide. By providing theoretical foundations for treating these organizations as autonomous actors in their own right, Rules for the World contributes greatly to our understanding of global politics and global governance.

POLITICAL SCIENCE --- World / General --- Law, Politics & Government --- International Relations --- International agencies. --- United Nations. --- International Monetary Fund. --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. --- Associations, International --- IGOs (Intergovernmental organizations) --- Institutions, International --- Intergovernmental organizations --- International administration --- International associations --- International governmental organizations --- International institutions --- International organizations --- International unions --- Organizations, International --- Specialized agencies of the United Nations --- A.C.N.U.R. --- ACNUR --- Agência da ONU para Refugiados --- Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados --- Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados --- Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados --- Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para Refugiados --- Alto commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati --- Cao ủy của Liên Hợp Quốc về người tị nạn --- Cao ủy Liên Hiệp Quó̂c vè̂ người tị nạn --- Cao ủy Liên Hợp Quốc về người tị nạn --- Cao uỷ Tị nạn Liên Hiệp Quó̂c --- Flüchtlingshochkommissariat der Vereinten Nationen --- Grapheio tēs Hypatēs Harmosteias tōn Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn gia tous Prosphyges --- Haut commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés --- HCR --- Hypatē Harmosteia Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn gia tous Prosphyges --- Hypatē Harmosteia tōn Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn gia tous Prosphyges --- Înaltul Comisariat al Națiunilor Unite pentru Refugiați --- Ishami ry'Umuryango w'Abibumbye ryita ku Mpunzi --- Kokuren Nanmin Kōtō Benmukan Jimusho --- Mufawwaḍīyah al-Sāmiyah lil-Umam al-Muttaḥidah li-Shuʼūn al-Lājiʼīn --- Mufawwaḍīyat al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah li-Shuʼūn al-Lājiʼīn --- مفوضية الأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين --- Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados --- Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para Refugiados --- U.N.H.C.R. --- UNHCR --- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- Upravlenie Verkhovnogo komissara OON po delam bezhent︠s︡ev --- Upravlinni︠a︡ Verkhovnoho komisara OON u spravakh biz︠h︡ent︠s︡iv --- Ured Visokog komesara Ujedinjenih naroda za izbjeglice --- UVKB OON --- Verkhovnyĭ komissar Organizat︠s︡ii Obʺedinennykh Nat︠s︡iĭ po delam bezhent︠s︡ev --- Visoki komisariat Združenih Narodov za begunce --- VKBOON --- ICNUR --- Internationaal monetair fonds --- International monetary fund --- UN --- UNO --- International cooperation --- Interorganizational relations --- Non-state actors (International relations) --- International organization --- International Refugee Organization --- Naciones Unidas --- Nations Unies --- ONU --- Organisation des Nations Unies --- Organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ Obʺedinennykh Nat︠s︡iĭ --- OON --- Vereinigte Nationen --- Umot ha-meʼuḥadot --- Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych --- ONZ --- Forente nasjoner --- Forenede nationer --- FN --- Förenta nationerna --- Gaertʻianebuli erebi --- Organização das Nações Unidas --- PBB --- Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa --- Kokusai Rengō --- Kokuren --- ENSZ --- Egyesült Nemzetek Szövetsége --- Birleșmiș Milletler Teșkilâtı --- Birlăşmiş Millătăr Tăşkilatı --- Birlashgan Millatlar Tashkiloti --- BMT --- YK --- Yhdistyneet kansakunnat --- OUN --- Organizacija Ujedinjenih Nacija --- NU --- Nazioni Unite --- OSN --- Organizace spojených národů --- Sāzmān-i Milal-i Muttafiq --- Bangsa² Bersatu --- Organización de las Naciones Unidas --- Ühinenud Rahvaste Organisatsioon --- ÜRO --- Organismos tōn Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn --- Umoja wa Mataifa --- Vereinten Nationen --- Vereinte Nationen --- Hayʼat al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah --- Verenigde Naties --- VN --- Organizația Națiunilor Unite --- Um --- Lien ho kuo --- OKB --- Organizata e Kombeve të Bashkuara --- Lian he guo --- U.N. --- Umam al-Muttaḥidah --- OĒE --- Hēnōmena Ethnē --- Organizácia Spojených Národov --- Sahaprachāchāt --- Națiunile Unite --- Organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ na obedinenite nat︠s︡ii --- Organismos Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn --- Manẓūmat al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah --- AAN --- Arhanizatsyi︠a︡ Ab'i︠a︡dnanykh Natsyĭ --- Nações Unidas --- Orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ Ob'i︠e︡dnanykh Nat︠s︡iĭ --- O.Ē.E. --- ʻOngkān Sahaprachāchāt --- Sjuninejal Konob'laq --- Sāzmān-i Milal-i Muttaḥid --- Milal-i Muttaḥid --- Nėgdsėn U̇ndėstniĭ Baĭguullaga --- NUB --- Rāshṭrasaṃgha --- או״מ --- أمم المتحدة --- الأمم المتحدة --- سازمان ملل متحد --- 国際連合 --- 联合囯 --- 聯合國 --- United Nations Organization --- Liên Hiệp Quó̂c --- Liên Hợp Quó̂c --- LHQ --- Kula Samagga --- YūʼAṅʻnʻ --- 联合国 --- Организация на обединените нации --- Организация Объединённых Наций --- Inter-governmental organizations --- United Nations. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- United Nations. High Commissioner for Refugees --- Verenigde Naties. Hoge commissaris voor de vluchtelingen --- United Nations. Alto Comisionado para los Refugiados --- United Nations. Flüchtlingshochkommissariat --- United Nations. High Commission for Refugees --- United Nations. High Commission on Refugees --- United Nations. Hochkommissariat für Flüchtlinge --- United Nations. Oficina del Alto Comisionado para Refugiados --- Yuen Nanmin Kigu --- 유엔 난민 기구