Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics

Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- List of Abbreviations.- 1. Studying Relations among International Organiszations: Core Concepts and Challenges.- Part 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches.- A. Theories and Methods.- 2. IR Paradigms and Inter-Organizational Theory: Situating the Research Program within the Discipline.- 3. Organization Theory and Cooperation and Conflict among International Organizations.- 4. The Rational Design of Inter-organizational Relations.- 5. Social Network Theory.- 6. Resource Dependence Theory.- 7. Population Ecology - How the Environment Influences the Evolution of Organizations.- 8. Sociological Approaches.- B. Levels, Actors and Configurations.- 9. Inter-organizationalism in International Relations: A Multi-Level Framework of Analysis.- 10. International Secretariats, Executive Heads and Leadership in Inter-organizational Relations.- 11. The Role of Bureaucracies.- 12. The Principal-Agent Model and Inter-Organizational Relations.- 13. The Principal-Agent Model and Inter-Organizational Relations.- 14. Nested Institutions.- 15. NGO-NGO Relations.- C. Core Concepts.- 16. Legitimizing Inter-organizational Relations.- 17. Power in Inter-organizational Relations.- 18. Assessing Influence between International Organizations.- 19. Trust among International Organizations.- PART II: POLICY AREAS.- A. Peace and security.- 20. Inter-organizational Coordination in Peacebuilding.- 21. Regime Complexity and Resource Dependence Theory in International Peacekeeping.- 22. Dark Networks. The Terrorism Crime Nexus.- 23. The Theory and Practice of International Humanitarian Relief Coordination.- 24. The Global Governance of Food Security.- B. Human rights and democratization.- 25. Inter-organizational Relations in the Field of Democratization:The European Union, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.- 26. The Council of Europe and Cooperation with Civil Society.- c. trade, finance, development and environment.- 27. Pushed toward Partnership: Increasing Cooperation between the Bretton Woods Bodies.- 28. Organizational Interactions in Global Energy Governance.- 29. The Cooperation of the European Union with Employer and Labor Associations.- 30. Inter-organizational Relations in the Anti-Corruption Realm and in Promoting Integrity in Public Procurement.- 31. Relations between International Organizations in the Field of Combating Climate Change.- 32. Conclusions