ABSTRACT
If we cut an international organization open today, will we find the same anatomy that Cox and Jacobson found twenty-five years ago? What does their anatomic lesson teach us in determining the current autonomy of international organizations? In their seminal study The anatomy of influence. Decision making in international organization (1973) Cox and Jacobson and their collaborators were able to unravel decision-making processes in international organizations and come up with reasoned predictions of the future that today turn out to have been remarkably insightful.
