Abstract International organizations ( io s) have repeatedly been challenged in their existence. In this essay, I review arguments about the causes of decline and survival existing research. While majority research has focused on structural pressures such as geopolitical crises, argue that s can also be threatened by member-states reasserting sovereignty, for example through budget cuts, non-co...

In the recent theoretical scholarship on sovereignty, it has become commonplace to encounter numerous ways in which state sovereignty been quietly “outsourced” and “pooled” with other agents institutions, especially international institutions aimed at promoting global governance commerce. Frédéric Mégret's fascinating article, contributes this growing body of scholarship, adds an important twis...