{"product_id":"transforming-international-institutions-erin-r-graham-9780198877943","title":"Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations","description":"\u003cem\u003eTransforming International Institutions\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates how a slow, quiet, subterranean process can produce big, radical change in international institutions and organizations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, Graham provides a novel theory of uncoordinated change over time. It highlights how early participants in a process who do not foresee the transformative potential of their acts, but nonetheless enable subsequent actors to push change in new directions to profound effect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGraham deploys this to explain how changes in UN funding rules in the 1940s and 1960s--perceived as small and made to solve immediate political disagreements--ultimately sidelined multilateral governance at the United Nations in the twenty-first century. The perception of funding rules as marginal to fundamental principles of governance, and the friendly orientation of change-initiators toward the UN, enabled this quiet transformation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallenging the UN's reputation for rigidity and its status as a bastion of egalitarian multilateralism, \u003cem\u003eTransforming International Institutions\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that the UN system is susceptible to subtle change processes and that its egalitarian multilateralism governs only a fraction of the UN's operational work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin R. Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198877943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198877943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Erin R. Graham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181174190335,"sku":"9780198877943","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e240a86a-0c3b-4e1b-8920-8d15c3b2fcc8.jpg?v=1690258967","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transforming-international-institutions-erin-r-graham-9780198877943","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}