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One of the striking features of contemporary international society is the persistence and increase in the number of international organizations within it. According to Inis Claude, the subdivision of the globe into separate independent political entities which, in turn, experienced a substantial measure of contact and interaction with each other formed the basic objective prerequisite for the evolution of the concept of interstate organization. Yet, had there not also been a subjective, or actually an intersubjective, prerequisite, namely the development among individuals within those independent political units of ‘an awareness of the problems which arise out of their coexistence …’, and the recognition of ‘the need for creation of institutional devices and systematic methods for regulating their relations with each other’, interstate organization would probably not have evolved in the way it has.2
Things that do not change may not remain at all.1
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Stephen R. Michael, ‘Organizational Change Techniques: Their Present, Their Future’, Organizational Dynamics (Summer 1982 ), p. 67.
See Gayl Ness and Steven Brechin, ‘Bridging the Gap: International Organizations as Organizations’, International Organization vol. 42, no. 2 (Spring 1988), pp. 245–73.
See Gareth Morgan, Riding the Waves of Change: Developing Managerial Cornpetencies for a Turbulent World ( London: Jossey-Bass, 1988 ), pp. 1–15.
A. Hirschman, ‘The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding’, World Politics, vol. 22, no. 3 (1970), pp. 329–43.
Robert Cox, ‘Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory’, in Friedrich Kratochwil and Edward Mansfield (eds), International Organization: A Reader ( New York: HarperCollins, 1994 ), pp. 350–1.
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Knight, W.A. (2000). Conclusions. In: A Changing United Nations. Global Issues Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333984420_9
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