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999			_c25403 _d25403
020			_a9780198757962
082			_a341.2 _bSIN-T
100			_aSinclair, Guy Fiti
245			_aTo reform the world _b:international organization and the making of modern states
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bOxford University Press _c2017
300			_axviii, 342p.
440			_aThe History and Theory of International law
504			_aincludes bibliography,index
520			_aThe 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. The book contends that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally, most often in the Global South, in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within and interactions among states, societies, and peoples on a broadly Western, liberal model. Adopting a historical and interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach, it supports this claim through detailed investigations of historical episodes involving three very different organizations: the International Labour Organization in the interwar period; the United Nations in the two decades following the Second World War; and the World Bank from the 1950s through to the 1990s. The book draws on a wide range of original institutional and archival materials, bringing to light little-known aspects of each organization's activities, identifying continuities in the ideas and practices of international governance across the twentieth century, and speaking to a range of pressing theoretical questions in present-day international law and international relations.
650			_ainternational relations _vinternational organisation _vInternational agencies
942			_2ddc _cBK