{"product_id":"rules-for-the-world-international-organizations-in-global-politics-9780801488238","title":"Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRules for the World\u003c\/i\u003e provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett and Finnemore maintain, such bureaucracies can become obsessed with their own rules, producing unresponsive, inefficient, and self-defeating outcomes. Authority thus gives international organizations autonomy and allows them to evolve and expand in ways unintended by their creators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarnett and Finnemore reinterpret three areas of activity that have prompted extensive policy debate: the use of expertise by the IMF to expand its intrusion into national economies; the redefinition of the category \"refugees\" and decision to repatriate by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and the UN Secretariat's failure to recommend an intervention during the first weeks of the Rwandan genocide. By providing theoretical foundations for treating these organizations as autonomous actors in their own right, \u003ci\u003eRules for the World\u003c\/i\u003e contributes greatly to our understanding of global politics and global governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Barnett is Harold Stassen Chair at the Hubert H. Humphrey School and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eEyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor with Shibley Telhami of \u003ci\u003eIdentity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e (both from Cornell). He is also coeditor of\u003ci\u003e Power and Global Governance\u003c\/i\u003e. Martha Finnemore is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Her books \u003ci\u003eThe Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNational Interests in International Society\u003c\/i\u003e are also available from Cornell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413056655634,"sku":"9780801488238","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_973127af-84c4-4c80-b00a-c89841879203.jpg?v=1729343076","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rules-for-the-world-international-organizations-in-global-politics-9780801488238","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}