00661nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000010000240001724500670004126000090010852003800011758300190049794200060051699900170052220260716043407.0 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 cA c46350d46350