International organizations have defined and managed different aspects of migrant health issues for decades, yet we lack a systematic understanding of how they reach decisions and what they do on the ground. The present article seeks to clarify the state of knowledge on the relationship between international organizations and migrant health in Europe. To do so, we review the operations of six o...

The starting point for this volume is our still rather limited understanding of management reforms in international organizations, both in theoretical and empirical terms. These deficits are not only linked to a lack of investigations of management reforms in international organizations, but also emerge from the fact that little theoretical attempts have been made in order to link the findings ...

Jean Clark, President, IFHRO Josephine Raw, Australia Lili Levesque, Canada Liu Aimin, China Darley Petersen, Denmark Angelika Haendel, Germany Gemala Hatta, Indonesia Avni Pnini, Israel Sara Marchisio, Italy Janice Bryan, Jamaica Yukiko Yokobori, Japan Robert Wamalwa, Kenya Nam Kim, Korea Lourdes Palapal, The Phillipines Lorraine Nicholson, UK, President-Elect Margaret Skurka, USA Bryon Pickar...

Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is reader in documents of international organizations. This book is not kind of difficult book to read. It can be rea...

How do international organizations (IO) influence domestic social policy? This paper answers this question using a comparison of IO participation in the social insurance policymaking process in Mexico in the 1940s and 1990s. There are similarities and differences between the periods. During both periods, IOs contributed technical expertise to the policy design process. The principal IO particip...

Some international organizations are governed by unanimity rule, some others by a majority system. Still others have moved from one system to the other over time. The existing voting models, which generally assume that decisions made by voting are perfectly enforceable, have a difficult time explaining the observed variation in governance mode, and in particular the widespread occurrence of the...

Recent research asserts that public commitments to international institutions promote behavior that is consistent with institutional purposes. Evidence for this proposition is based almost entirely on studies that compare the behavior of states that have and have not ratified treaties. This paper evaluates instances in which some member states temporarily experience increased entanglement with ...

Today’s international organizations are characterized by a fundamental deficit in democracy. We therefore propose institutional measures to increase the direct participation possibilities of the citizens in international organizations. In order to reduce the number of citizens involved in decision-making to a manageable size, a representative sample of trustees is selected using a random mechan...

What drives processes of institution building within regional international organizations? We challenge those established theories of regionalism, and of institutionalized cooperation more broadly, that treat different organizations as independent phenomena whose evolution is conditioned primarily by internal causal factors. Developing the basic premise of 'diffusion theory' - meaning that deci...

Impressive numbers of global and regional governmental and non-governmental organizations are working in the field of the marine environment and its resources. Many of these organizations operate within international legal frameworks ranging from comprehensive global conventions, such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to regional agreements aiming at protection and developm...