International Organization

The fourth edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, workings, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. Such organizations have never been so important in addressing the challenges that face our increasingly globalised world. This book introduces students to theories with which to approach international organizations, their history, and their ability to respond to contemporary issues in world politics from security and defence and climate change, to trade, migration and refugees, human rights protection, and international development. Underpinning the text is the authors'' unique model that views international organizations as actual organizations. Reacting to world events, political actors provide the ''inputs'' which are converted by the political systems of these organizations into ''outputs'' that achieve varying levels of real-world impact and effectiveness. This is