This volume enhances our understanding of IOs in global social governance by providing studies the policy fields which they operate

Abstract The rise of populists to power in many states around the world has caused concern among defenders multilateralism and so-called liberal international order. Due their frequent attacks on established organizations (IOs), are often falsely portrayed as unilateralists. Our article addresses apparent contradiction that populist leaders delegitimate certain IOs but actively legitimate other...

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International organizations (IOs) are driven by political-administrative interactions between member states and IO administrations. To model these understand their outcomes, scholars have predominantly, almost exclusively, relied on agency theory. Yet, as this paper argues, delegation can also take a form of stewardship, where goal conflict information asymmetries low. In stewardship relationsh...

The International Tobacco Growers’ Association is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation founded in 1984 by tobacco growers’ organisations from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Malawi, the U.S.A. and Zimbabwe. The ITGA was created with the objective of providing a collective voice for growers from all over the world. In 1999 the ITGA’s head-office moved to Castelo Branco, Portugal, where the ...