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This book examines the influence of international organizations since the First World War, and explores how they have acted on behalf of, and at times instead of, states in the international arena. The International Labour Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank are examined in depth.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I The International Labour Organization, technical assistance, and the welfare state 1919-1945
- 1: From standard-setting to technical assistance
- 2: Into development
- Part II The United Nations, peacekeeping, and the postcolonial state 1945-1964
- 3: From collective security to peacekeeping
- 4: Into international executive rule
- Part III The World Bank, governance, and the managerial state 1944-2000
- 5: From reconstruction to development
- 6: Into governance
- Conclusion
About the author
Dr Guy Fiti Sinclair is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Law School. His principal area of scholarship and teaching is public international law, with a focus on international organizations law, the history and theory of international law, and law and global governance. He holds first degrees in law and history from the University of Auckland, and a JSD from New York University School of Law, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He is an Associate Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, the Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Law, and a Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters) at Melbourne Law School.
Summary
This book examines the influence of international organizations since the First World War, and explores how they have acted on behalf of, and at times instead of, states in the international arena. The International Labour Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank are examined in depth.
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With a strong historical rationale, Sinclairs approach avoids both a morality driven vision for a better but far distant future and a power-driven neorealistic narrative of a dark present... This elegantly written and inspiring book investigates the expansion of powers of international organizations as a practice intertwined with the making of modern Western states through the lens of international law.
