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100 _aBarnett, Michael N.
245 _aPolitics, power and pathologies of international organizations
260 _c1999
520 _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.
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