International Organizations Engaging the World

International organizations have always been exclusively seen as vehicles for their member states, exercising delegated powers. This book demonstrates that this picture is seriously outdated: international organizations address a wide variety of social actors, and this needs to be reflected in the way we think about international organizations. The book provides an overview, in distinct chapters, about the sort of actors international organizations engage with; provides empirical examples; investigates potential winners and losers of such interaction; and aims to find ways to come to terms with the realization that international organizations are not solely member state-driven. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Jan Klabbers is Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and is generally regarded as one of the leading scholars in the field of international organizations law. He is the author of An Introduction to International Organizations Law and is currently working on a project concerning international organizations and the private sector.