ABSTRACT
Much scholarly and public policy attention has focused on the contestation
around older intergovernmental agencies such as the United Nations, World
Bank, and International Monetary Fund, as well as newer ones such as the
World Trade Organization and the International Criminal Court (Woods
1999 and 2002).1 But far too few of these, even scholarly versions, examine
the relations between these organizations and the broader underlying insti-
tutional arrangements, that is interstate regimes, let alone perhaps a world
society, of which they are constitutive elements, central actors, and core symbols (Rittberger 1995).
