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Multilateral Cooperation and Organizational Complexity (SPS-WS-HOF-MU-24)

SPS-WS-HOF-MU-24

Purpose

Over the last decades, the number of international organizations has grown rapidly across policy domains such as security, trade, human rights, cyber, or development aid. Not only have new organizations been created but existing ones also expanded their scope. In crisis management, for example, we observe not only the UN, but also the EU, NATO, OSCE, AU, ECOWAS, IGAD - just to name a few. Trade is governed through the WTO, regional organizations and many other PTAs. As a result, what has been governed through relatively disconnected international treaties and agreements before, is today subject to overlapping organizations and so-called regime complexes. In this seminar, we ask whether this growth in organizations has transformed the ways in which we think of global governance and multilateral cooperation? In addressing this question, more questions arise such as: Why have some international organizations proliferated and expanded while others have not? Which actors push for what kind of institutional change? Do we observe differences across policy domains and/or regions? We will examine these questions by reviewing advanced theoretical and empirical scholarship on international organizations.
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