Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics

Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- List of Abbreviations.- 1. Studying Relations among International Organiszations: Core Concepts and Challenges.- Part 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches.- A. Theories and Methods.- 2. IR Paradigms and Inter-Organizational Theory: Situating the Research Program within the Discipline.- 3. Organization Theory and Cooperation and Conflict among International Organizations.- 4. The Rational Design of Inter-organizational Relations.- 5. Social Network Theory.- 6. Resource Dependence Theory.- 7. Population Ecology - How the Environment Influences the Evolution of Organizations.- 8. Sociological Approaches.- B. Levels, Actors and Configurations.- 9. Inter-organizationalism in International Relations: A Multi-Level Framework of Analysis.- 10. International Secretariats, Executive Heads and Leadership in Inter-organizational Relations.- 11. The Role of Bureaucracies.- 12. The Principal-Agent Model and Inter-Organizational Relations.- 13. ThePrincipal-Agent Model and Inter-Organizational Relations.- 14. Nested Institutions.- 15. NGO-NGO Relations.- C. Core Concepts.- 16. Legitimizing Inter-organizational Relations.- 17. Power in Inter-organizational Relations.- 18. Assessing Influence between International Organizations.- 19. Trust among International Organizations.- PART II: POLICY AREAS.- A. Peace and security.- 20. Inter-organizational Coordination in Peacebuilding.- 21. Regime Complexity and Resource Dependence Theory in International Peacekeeping.- 22. Dark Networks. The Terrorism Crime Nexus.- 23. The Theory and Practice of International Humanitarian Relief Coordination.- 24. The Global Governance of Food Security.- B. Human rights and democratization.- 25. Inter-organizational Relations in the Field of Democratization:The European Union, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.- 26. The Council of Europe and Cooperation with Civil Society.- c. trade, finance, development and environment.- 27. Pushed toward Partnership:

Rafael Biermann is Chair of International Relations at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Previously, he was Vice-Dean of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, and responsible for policy planning in the German Chancellery and the MoD. His major monographs focus on international conflict prevention in Kosovo and Soviet policy on German unification.

Joachim A. Koops is Dean of Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Research Professor at the VUB's Institute for European Studies and Director of the Global Governance Institute (GGI). Recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (OUP, 2015), The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor (Palgrave, 2015), The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar