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Global International Society, Regional International Societies and Regional International Organizations: A Dataset of Primary Institutions

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International Organization in the Anarchical Society

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Until recently, the English School of International Relations (ES) has been interested in the operation of norms and institutions regulating the ‘society of states’ at the global level. In the last years, however, a new regional focus has marked its research agenda, asking questions on what norms, rules and institutions operate in different regions and whether they mirror those at the global level or are different from them. Yet, in this regional turn, there has so far been a blind spot, namely, the role of regional international organizations in ‘localizing’ global norms and institutions in their regional domain. This chapter presents and interprets the results of the dataset compiled by Barry Buzan and Altin Naz Sunay (English School Primary Institutions and International Organizations, Study of IGO Charters, Section 1:UN Family parts 1 and 3; Section 2: European Intergovernmental Organizations; Section 3: Primary Institutions in the Middle East; Section 4: English School Primary Institutions and Asian Intergovernmental Organizations. Research conducted for Prof. Barry Buzan, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, 2007) on fundamental institutions and regional organizations with the intention to fill this gap. The initial findings suggest that fundamental institutions are received differently into different regional organizations and different organizations stress different priorities.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The database is available online at the ISA English School Homepage: https://www.englishschoolir.net/.

  2. 2.

    This distinction may remind the reader of Nicholas Onuf’s categorization of ‘evolved’ and ‘designed’ institutions to indicate ‘habitual practices’ and ‘regimes’ (2002).

  3. 3.

    At the time of writing, the database was emailed to me directly by Barry Buzan.

  4. 4.

    For Buzan, master institutions are the following: sovereignty, non-intervention, international law, territoriality, boundaries and diplomacy, while derivative institutions are messengers/diplomats, conferences/congresses, multilateralism, diplomatic language, arbitration, balance of power, anti-hegemonism, alliances, guarantees, neutrality, war, great power management, equality of people, human rights, humanitarian intervention, inequality of people, colonialism, dynasticism, trade, market, protectionism, hegemonic stability, nationalism, self-determination, popular sovereignty and democracy.

  5. 5.

    A caveat is in order: the database does not explain why these organizations, conventions and protocols, and not others, have been included for the analysis.

  6. 6.

    States entitled to appear before the Court can be found at ICJ (2017a); states that have accepted the Court’s jurisdiction can be found at ICJ (2017b).

  7. 7.

    In the database, this secondary institution is listed in the UN institutions section as well. I decided to avoid this duplication in the chapter.

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    Cornelia Navari

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Costa Buranelli, F. (2019). Global International Society, Regional International Societies and Regional International Organizations: A Dataset of Primary Institutions. In: Brems Knudsen, T., Navari, C. (eds) International Organization in the Anarchical Society. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71622-0_10

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