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A thoroughly revised edition of a classic text that focuses on the role of international organizations in the context of emerging challenges to the centrality of the traditional nation-state in the modern international system.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition Introduction: The Analysis of International Organizations: An Overview The Past and the Present International Organizations as Historical Phenomena The Predisposition Towards International Organization International Organization and Administration Universal International Organizations as Practical Necessities The Devolution of the Territorial State The Present and the Future International Organizations and the Changing Face of War International Organizational Interactions Decision-Making: Muddling Through in Search of Global Governance International Organizations and the Management of Cooperation Appendix: Official Classification of the UN System Appendix: Excerpts from the UN Charter Appendix: IOs by Type (1995-1996); and IOs by Year and Type (1909-1992) Bibliographical References Index

About the Author

ROBERT S. JORDAN is Research Professor of Political Science at the University of New Orleans and past Vice President of the International Studies Association. He is the author or editor of over twenty scholarly books. CLIVE ARCHER is Professor of Political Science at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of several books on International Organization and the European Union, and is Chair of the University for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) He is an active member of the British International Studies Association and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. GREGORY GRANGER is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He held the 1999-2000 Clyde Bostick Professorship of Social Sciences and is currently Vice President of the Louisiana Political Science Association. KERRY ORDES is Temporary Visiting Instructor of Political Science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

Reviews

"International organization textbook writers face a formidable challenge. There are so many organizations, which display huge variety in almost every aspect. One response is to produce a book which is long, descriptive, and dull. Professor Jordon and his associates, however, have chosen a much more difficult route, and traversed it with great skill and success. Their book is short, focuses analytically on a wide range of issues, yet also provides extremely interesting case studies which give the reader a sense of immediate practicality. Above all, the book had the virtue of encouraging the student to sit up and think. The authors are to be very warmly congratulated." Alan James, Emeritus Professor Department of International Relations Keele University, U.K. "This volume provides an extraordinarily useful text for a course in international organizations, as it furnishes a compact, authoritative, and highly readable analysis of how, why, and to what degree international organizations contribute to regularizing the interactions among states and other international actors.... The analysis is well balanced between theoretical considerations and real world policy output.... The key to appreciating this volume lies in its subtitle: The Management of International Cooperation. This facet distinguishes Jordan's text from the others in the field....[T]his volume emerges as an outstanding contribution to the contemporary literature on international organizations." Christopher C. Joyner Professor of International Law and Government Georgetown University "An extremely timely and well organized text on the evolving and increasingly central role of international organizations in the management of global change. This fourth edition of International Organizations: A Comparative Approach has been prepared by Robert S. Jordan and addresses all the pertinent questions. It will be of great interest to students and practitioners alike." John P. Renninger Director Asia and the Pacific Division Department of Political Affairs United Nations