ABSTRACT
In the world of international organizations and agencies in the post-BREXIT and Ukraine War world, two opposing trends are accelerating at the same time-pressure to restrict or curtail IO authority, for example the painful process of BREXIT and the paralysis of the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body, in sharp contrast with urgent calls for global agencies to develop and adopt new standards and rules in global public health and the climate crisis, as well as the existential biodiversity, food and natural resource crises. Ongoing and future work must first control for the relative difficulty of the evolution that confronts the international agencies (or IOs). Barnett and Finnemore analyze especially three specific sources of IO authority, or ways in which IOs might establish or obtain it, their rationale-legal or bureaucratic form, control over information and expertise, and an underlying culture, social purpose, or morally positive motivation.
