Abstract
The fourth of the distinctions around which this book is organized relates to what it is that international organizations (IOs) actually accomplish. This distinction can best be represented as one between efficiency and ideas. Some analysts of IOs focus on their role in making relations among states as efficient as possible. They do this by submitting IOs to what is essentially an economic style of analysis. Other analysts focus on how IOs affect the way that states, national decision-makers, and global populations more broadly think. In other words, they examine the effects of IOs on norms of behavior in international politics. This calls for a more sociological mode of analysis. This chapter discusses the methodologies of both approaches.
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Barkin, J.S. (2023). Efficiency and Ideas. In: International Organization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22559-8_5
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