The Survival of International Organizations : Institutional Responses to Existential Challenges

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence.It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. While international organizations (IOs) have played a central role in global governance in the post-Cold War period, during the last decade many have struggled.Due to the rise of populism, the Trump Presidency, and the renewed assertiveness of the emerging powers, various IOs have been challenged in ways that put their ability to perform core functions at risk.The Survival of International Organizations studies the responses of IOs to such existential challenges.It focuses on the central institutional actors inside IOs - IO leaders and their bureaucracies - that have a strong interest in the survival and well-being of their organizations.Presenting six case studies and drawing on more than 100 interviews, this book highlights the variation in the way in which t