Ways of Seeing International Organisations

Negar Mansouri is a postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Imam Khomeini International University (Qazvin, Iran), two MAs in international law from Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, Iran) and the Geneva Graduate Institute, and a Ph.D. in international law from the last institution. Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín is currently an Ernst Mach Fellow at the University of Vienna (Austria). He holds a PhD in international law with a minor in international history and politics with the highest distinction from the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland). He also holds a MA from the same institution and a BA in law from the University of the Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).

• Part I. Thinking International Organisations Differently: 1. Seeing international organisations differently Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín; 2. Critical theory and international organisations: the need for an integrated approach B. S. Chimni; 3. Inter-disciplinarity and the law of international organizations Jan Klabbers; Part II. Ways of Seeing International Institutions: Expertise, Authority, & Knowledge Production: 4. Studying the assembling of expertise in global governance Annabelle Littoz-Monnet; 5. Experts, practices, power: the work of international criminal court reform Richard Clements; 6. Drawing the contours of hidden hunger as an object of governance Juanita Uribe; Structures, Spaces, & Jurisdictions: 7. The puzzle of freedom: structure and agency in international adjudication Tommaso Soave; 8. Reassembling transnational legal conflicts across global institutions: ethnographic perspectives on claims of authority over the Mediterranean Sea Kiri Santer; 9. Placeholders: an archival journey into the interim histories of international organisations Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín; People, Practices, & Performance: 10. The micro-politics of international commissions: the case of telegraphic standards Jan Eijking; 11. Keeping up standards for a better world: anthropological alternatives to the study of international organisations Miia Halme-Tuomisaari; 12. 'The critic is not the one who debunks, but the one who assembles': on professional performances and material practices Dimitri Van Den Meerssche; Capital, Class, & Political Economy: 13. Laissez faire, state capitalism, and the making of international organizations: the dynamics of a struggle Negar Mansouri; 14. Deconstructing 'resilience talk' in global governance: toward a critical political economy approach A. Claire Cutler; 15. A white knight in shining armor? Ethiopia, international organisations, and the global colour line Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín; Part III. Conclusion: 16: Examining elephants in the dark Guy Fiti Sinclair.

'In drawing together diverse disciplinary perspectives and traditions of thought to pluralize and complicate 'ways of seeing' international organizations, this wonderfully rich volume advances both scholarship on international organizations themselves, and more wide-ranging inquiries about the connections between legal forms, institutional arrangements and epistemology in international law.' Megan Donaldson, Associate Professor of Public International Law, University College London