Description: For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional law'- has been marked by an intellectual quietism. Most of the scholarship tends to focus narrowly on providing 'legal' answers to 'legal' questions. For that reason, perspectives rarely engage with the insights of critical traditions of legal thought (for instance, feminist, postcolonial, or political economy-oriented perspectives) or with interdisciplinary contributions produced outside the field. Ways of Seeing International Organisations challenges the narrow gaze of the field by bringing together authors across multiple disciplines to reflect on the need for 'new' perspectives in international institutional law. Highlighting the limits of mainstream approaches, the authors instead interrogate international organisations as pivots in processes of world-making. To achieve this, the volume is organised around four fundamental themes: expertise; structure; performance; and capital. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Brief description: Negar Mansouri is a postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Imam Khomeini International University (Qazvin, Iran), two MAs in international law from Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, Iran) and the Geneva Graduate Institute, and a Ph.D. in international law from the last institution.
Review Quotes: 'Challenging the traditional lens of international institutional law, Ways of Seeing International Organisations brings fresh perspectives to the field. By interrogating expertise, structures, performance, and capital, this work transcends conventional boundaries, inspiring a critical, multidisciplinary understanding of international organisations' socio-technical roles and world-ordering visions.' Sundhya Pahuja, Melbourne Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne