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"International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is the first volume to systematically explore the historical relationship between international organizations and the media. Bringing together two burgeoning yet largely unconnected strands of research - the history of international organizations and international media histories - this book is essential reading for scholars of international history and those interested in the development and impact of media over time"--

AbstractInternational organizations (IOs) increasingly pool resources and expertise. Under what conditions do they pool rather than compete when their activities overlap? Drawing on elite interviews, I argue that even though many cooperation decisions are made by staff possessing high degrees of autonomy from member state principals, IOs are more likely to pool resources when their leading stakeholders are geopolitically aligned. Regardless of whether member states directly oversee the negotiation of these arrangements, staff design policies that are amenable to major stakeholders. I test this argument with regression analysis of an original data set that documents patterns of co-financing and information sharing among IOs in the development issue area. I further supplement these tests with an elite survey experiment deployed via LinkedIn to bureaucrats from various development IOs. Across the board, I find evidence consistent with my theory.