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Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics Paperback – October 12, 2004

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Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett and Finnemore maintain, such bureaucracies can become obsessed with their own rules, producing unresponsive, inefficient, and self-defeating outcomes. Authority thus gives international organizations autonomy and allows them to evolve and expand in ways unintended by their creators.

Barnett and Finnemore reinterpret three areas of activity that have prompted extensive policy debate: the use of expertise by the IMF to expand its intrusion into national economies; the redefinition of the category "refugees" and decision to repatriate by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and the UN Secretariat's failure to recommend an intervention during the first weeks of the Rwandan genocide. By providing theoretical foundations for treating these organizations as autonomous actors in their own right, Rules for the World contributes greatly to our understanding of global politics and global governance.

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Cornell University Press
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October 12, 2004
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6.12 x 0.55 x 9.25 inches
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0801488230
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978-0801488238
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The book Rules for the World by Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore seeks to understand more fully why international organizations have certain beliefs, and explores the relationship between states and international organizations through three case studies: the International Monetary Fund, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the failure of UN peacekeeping to prevent the Rwandan genocide. Firstly, I appreciated the link that was made back to the theme of the James Ferguson book: “We are interested in how IO staff come to create and interpret the bureaucratic rules that shape both how they classify and see the world and how they act in it”. This helps situate Rules for the World in the previously existing literature and reaffirms that the pathologies affecting international organizations is a very important issue.
I enjoyed Chapter 4 about the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. This chapter shed light on why humanitarian organizations are often unable to accomplish their goal of aiding refugees. The answer lies in the same issue that is discussed in the Ferguson book, which is the flawed bureaucratic rules that the organizations abide by: “This definition’s central feature is its narrowness, a reflection of states’ desire to limit their responsibilities. UNHCR was born as a backward-looking rather than a forward-looking organization, and so it was expected to help those who already were refugees and not future refugees.” (page 81) Similarly to the Ticktin article, this book could be used as a textbook for students studying humanitarianism because it teaches us core themes of international organizations drawn from case studies. One weakness of Rules for the World in my opinion is the structure of the chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to a case study and the authors present the evidence in chronological order. This is more typical of history books than political science books. The arguments would have been clearer to me if the authors had linked back to their research question of “why international organizations believe as they do” throughout the chapters, and if they had broken down the evidence into sections forming a framework for answering their research question.

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