ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the authors' published work on the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and other similar international institutions, all co-authored with Xu Yi-chong. Two strands of scholarship in particular are important in providing foils and points of departure for Weller and Xu's work on international organisations. When Xu explained that the conventional wisdom styled these individuals as completely irrelevant to the study and functioning of IOs, Weller pointed out the improbability of this line from a public policy perspective. In terms of scholarship, this chapter has earlier remarked on how international-relations scholars increasingly study international organisations as 'normal' were looking to make a more explicit theoretical contribution, they could do much worse than to systematically employ this body of literature to show up conceptual failings in international relations coverage of international organisations and global governance.
