Abstract Research on legitimacy of international organizations (IOs) has often focused discursive self-legitimation by IOs. This article explores the role other (de)legitimizing actors. Distinguishing between elites different political and societal sectors, we use unique data from a survey 860 in Brazil, Germany, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, United States, global elite group, to perform f...

As our worldview has become more pervasive, there has been a maturation of various international ophthalmological organizations. They have created several new initiatives that have the potential to dramatically affect preventable and treatable blindness, worldwide. The first international ophthalmological organization (the International Council of Ophthalmology, established in 1927) evolved fro...