ABSTRACT
The government is a ‘legal fiction’.1 Focusing exclusively on the formalized interactions and committees during international negotiations may obscure the latent organizational structures, especially the influence structures:
Thus, the theoretical value of concentrating on the influence network as opposed to the authority structure is that it offers a more complete, political picture of the organizational system. [. . .] The influence network that exists among coalitions is the emergent organizational property of primary interest to the political analysis of organizations.
