00585nam a2200085Ia 4500100002400000245006700024260000900091520038000100583001900480  aBarnett, Michael N.  aPolitics, power and pathologies of international organizations  c1999  aDevelops a constructivist approach rooted in sociological institutionalism to explain both the power of international organizations (IOs) and their propensity for dysfunctional, even pathological behaviour.  Argues that the rational-legal authority that IOs embody gives them power independent of the states that created them and channels that power in particular directions.  c11/6/00kJOY_D