3 Review(s)

“Few books about world politics merit the description of `path-breaking.' Rules for World is one of them. States matter, but so do their creations, international or am i Realists beware." —THOMAS G. WEISS, Presidential Professor and Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for international Studies. The CUNY Graduate Center " “This is essential reading on the authoritative roles played by international secretariats. Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore look at international organizations as organizations, applying a sophisticated bureaucratic analysis and identifying the modal pathologies of these unique institutions. They make a completely persuasive case that scholars need to pay more attention to the ways in which international organizations can be held accountable to their ultimate clients, not to their state members, but to citizens throughout the global polity." —CRAIG N. MURPHY, Wellesley College, Historian of the UN Development Programme and Chair of the Academic Council on the UN System "Provocative and controversial in the best senses of those words, Rules for the World urges us to rethink the widespread view that portrays international bureaucrats as selfless and powerless agents of states. The authors mix an insightful treatment of the sociology of organizations with in-depth and original case studies of three pathologies of global governance, instances when international organizations contributed to failures in the management of international financial crises, the protection of refugees, and the stopping of genocide." —MICHAEL W. DOYLE, Harold Brown Professor of Law and International Affairs, Columbia University