Decision making within international organizations

"International organizations are increasingly important in the era of globalization but little is known about decision making within these institutions. This edited volume investigates how much influence governments as well as non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations and international bureaucracies, have upon decision making and the specific ways in which they try to affect international outcomes."--Jacket

Intro -- Title page -- Decision Making Within International Organizations -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I Introduction and overview -- Foreword -- 1 The issue of decision making within international organizations -- Part II Leadership -- 2 The European Commission and the EU member states as actors in the WTO negotiating process -- 3 Framing decisions in the Council of Europe -- Part III Consensus building -- 4 Expertise and political competence -- 5 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as ideational artist and arbitrator -- Part IV Organizational dynamics -- 6 Groupthink -- 7 UNHCR's decision making on internally displaced persons -- Part V Conflicts of loyalty -- 8 Are world leaders puppets or puppeteers? -- 9 An institutionalist perspective on EU committee decision making -- Part VI Policy windows -- 10 Sanctions in reaction to human rights violations -- 11 Framing decisions in the United Nations -- Part VII Learning processes -- 12 Decision making in the International Maritime Organization -- 13 Social learning with the precautionary principle at the European Commission and the Codex Alimentarius -- Part VIII Conclusion -- 14 Patterns of decision making within international organizations -- Index.