Politics of Expertise in International Organizations

Annabelle Littoz-Monnet is an Associate Professor in international relations/political science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.

• 1. Introduction: Production and uses of knowledge by international bureaucraciesAnnabelle Littoz-Monnet2. The role of expert knowledge in international organizations Christina Boswell 3. International bureaucracies’ competence creep into bioethics: The use of ethics experts as a bureaucratic deviceAnnabelle Littoz-Monnet4. Coupling science to governance: Straddling the science-policy interfacePeter M. Haas5. Experts and the production of international policy knowledge: Do epistemic communities do the jobDavid Demortain6. Partners to diplomacy: Transnational experts and knowledge transfer among global policy programsDiane Stone7. Connecting scholarly expertise to international policy practice at the UNThomas Biersteker8. Modes of knowledge mobilization throughout the international policy process Cecilia Cannon9. Evaluation and simulation: Producing evidence in the global politics of social cash transfersJohn Berten10. The managerialism of neoliberal global governance: The case of the OECDManal Elshihry and Chandana G. Alawattage Chandana11. Doing comparison: Producing authority in an international organizationRichard Freeman and Steve Sturdy

'To conclude, chapters vary in how they investigate expert knowledge: whether its relation to informing policy making, the processes of knowledge exchange and dissemination, or as a source of power...Finally, as mentioned, the volume offers a rich collection of case studies across a number of different IOs, on quite diverse policy areas.'Cleo Davies, University of Edinburgh, Governance (Wiley)