This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School's conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society. It theorizes their nature through an analysis of the relationship of primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorizing, and provides case studies to illuminate the theory. Hitherto, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organizations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materializations of primary institutions. Building on legal and constructivist arguments about the constitutive character of institutions, it demonstrates how primary institutions frame secondary organizations and regimes, but also how secondary institutions construct agencies with capacities that impinge upon and can change primary institutions. Based on legal and constructivist ideas, it develops a theoretical model that sees primary and secondary institutions as shared understandings enmeshed in observable historical processes of constitution, reproduction and regulation.

Tonny Brems Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Cornelia Navari is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK.

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Tonny Brems Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Cornelia Navari is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: A New Approach to International Organization

Cornelia Navari and Tonny Brems Knudsen

PART I: THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS

2 Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations: Theorizing Continuity and Change

Tonny Brems Knudsen

3 Modeling the Relations of Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations Cornelia Navari

PART II: GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL INSTITUTIONS

4 Institutional Constraints and Institutional Tensions in the Reform of the UN Security Council

Charlotta Friedner Parrat

5 Institutionalizing Morality: The UN Security Council and the Fundamental Norms of the International Legal Order

Dennis R. Schmidt

6 International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society

Peter Wilson and Joanne Yao

7 China, Great Power Management and Environmental Stewardship: Negotiating Responsibility for Climate Change at the UN

Sanna Kopra

8 Fundamental Institutions and International Organizations: Solidarist Architecture Tonny Brems Knudsen

9 Competing Norms and Norm Change: Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health in the World Trade Organization

Eero Palmujoki

PART III: REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL INSTITUTIONS

10 Global International Society, Regional International Societies and Regional International Organizations: A Data Set of Primary Institutions

Filippo Costa Buranelli

11 The European Union between Solidarist Change and Pluralist Re-Enactment Bettina Ahrens

12 Primary and Secondary Institutions in Regional International Society: Sovereignty and the League of Arab States

Raslan Ibrahim

13 Primary Institutional Dynamics and the Emergence of Regional Governance in Southeast Asia: Constructing Post-Colonial International Societies

Kilian Spandler