History of IO Research - Rise and Decline of IOs - What kills IOs?

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What is the research of Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni based on?


  • ◆ The types of termination that IOs face (expiration, dissolution, replacement, merging and disuse).
  • ◆  The causes for termination, including exogenous shock (periods of the high balance of power shifts, resulting in high termination of IOs and vice versa; a Realist perspective), institutional adaptability, timing/sequencing (based on an IOs’ relative age; young IOs are more likely to survive crisis periods) and mandate (technical vs. non-technical IOs).
    ➔ However, analysis shows that it is difficult to generalize.

What are the three stages of life of an IO according to Julia Gray?

◆  Alive:Current functioning IOs (e.g.theUN).
◆  Zombie: IOs that are formally still in existence, but do not do anything (e.g.La Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana - SICA).
◆  Dead: Terminated IOs (e.g.the Arab Maghreb Union).

Grays data analysis concludes that:

◆  Concludes that only half of the IOs population is active.
◆  Shows that bureaucratic autonomy influences vitality (i.e.the more autonomy an IOs has, the more likely it will remain alive) and that IOs located in attractive cities are more likely to stay alive.
◆  Uses a limited data set, however (includes only data points from 1955 to 2015).

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