Review: International Organizations: Frameworks for International Co-Operation
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209204700211 |
| Author | Craig N. Murphy |
| Date | 01 June 1992 |
| Published date | 01 June 1992 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
tary, and
it
was
a
pleasure
to
see
my
original
work
carried
forward.
However,
the
reader
is
warned
that
Mouritzen's
style
is
very
laboured
with
two
different
types
of
footnoting
and
a
plethora
of
interjections
(both
bracketed
ones
and
subordinate
clauses)
in
most
sentences.
The
advance in
knowledge
does
not
come
easily.
Robert
I.
McLaren/University
of
Regina
FRAMEWORKS
FOR
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
Edited
by
A.J.R.
Groom
&
Paul
Taylor
London:
Pinter,
1990,
xii,
293pp,
£29.00
This
is
the
last of
three
recent
volumes
on
international
institutions
edited
by
Groom
and
Taylor.
Earlier,
empirical,
volumes
considered
global
agencies
and
conferences.
This
one
concentrates
on
theory.
It
is,
in some
ways,
the
least satisfying
of
the three,
mostly because
con-
temporary
theorizing
has
its
limitations.
The
book
does
what
the
edi-
tors
intended
quite
well.
It
identifies the
'central
thrust'
of
different
theories
about
co-operation
through
international
institutions
while
making
sure
to
'highlight
their
distinctive
features'
(p
3),
and
it
con-
tains
outstanding
essays,
including
Groom's
introduction
(a
concise
contextual
history
of
international
organization)
and
Taylor's
chapters
on
functionalism,
regionalism,
and
supranationalism.
Still,
we
might
expect
contributors
to
explain
why
representatives
of
the
traditions portrayed
in
this
volume
-
functionalism, neo-func-
tionalism,
the
recent
debates
about
regimes,
etc -
rarely
confront
one
another's
ideas
more directly.
After
all,
these
traditions
share roots
in
common liberal
arguments
about international
co-operation
that
orig-
inated
at
the
very
beginning of
the
Industrial
Revolution.
Roger
Tooze's
chapter
on
American
regime
theorists
does
try
to
explain their
blinders
by
considering
some
unique
American foreign
policy
con-
cerns.
The
other
contributors
might
have
raised
the
same
critical
ques-
tion
about
the
traditions
they
discuss. For
example,
a
unique
policy
concern
of
many
British
scholars
with the
legitimacy
of
the
European
Community
may
provide
a
similar
explanation
of
why
Mitrany's
func-
tionalism,
which
speaks
to
the
question of
popular
participation
in
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