To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States

by Guy Fiti Sinclair

Book Overview

This book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by law. Sinclair contends that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198846142
• ISBN13: 9780198846147
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"