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The study of inter-organisational relations forms a part of organisation theory. It has not been widely applied to international organisations. This chapter points out and clears away some theoretical impediments related to the understanding of the character of international organisations. These would include the idiosyncrasies of the study of international relations when it comes to the locus and type of power, and the habit of concentrating on the state even when analysing inter-organisational relations, or still the habit of not seeing international organisations as able to have power. The attitudes towards international organisations clearly matter to how the questions are framed. The chapter then goes on to look at the empirical development of inter-organisational relations in the field of security, concentrating on the three organisations that this book is about: the EU, NATO and the UN. It looks at existing research on them and finds that power is missing in the analysis.

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    See, for example, Rees (1998), Bloed and Wessel (1994), Deighton (1997), Bailes and Messervy-Whiting (2011).

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    Bailes and Messervy-Whiting (2011:34) and further information by private correspondence with Bailes.

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    UN (2011) General Assembly Resolution A/65/276; comparable to Palestine and the Holy See. Thus, the EU’s representatives are allowed to present a common position. The resolution gives the EU the ability to speak early among other major groups, when speaking on behalf of the 27 EU states, and invites the EU to intervene in the general debate at the opening of the General Assembly. In addition, the EU has obtained the right to orally present proposals and amendments, a possibility that no other observer has at its disposal, and the right to reply once to a speech regarding EU positions. The EU representative cannot vote or propose candidates for the vote.

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    European Union Delegation to the United Nations (2017). Information from http://eu-un.europa.eu/about-the-eu-at-the-un/. Accessed 11 August 2017.

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    For instance, for Kubicek (2003), there are four main categories of interaction: control, contagion, convergence and conditionality.

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