Introduction The Institutional PuzzleMethodological Solutions The Network Growth Model The Spirit of the Book Part 1. What IOs Are and What We Think We Know1 The Conventional Wisdom, First Cut: The Classics1.1 A Taste for Typologies 1.2 An Exclusive Focus on IOs/States Relations 1.3 To Sum Up2 The Conventional Wisdom, Second Cut: The Mavericks 2.1 Rejuvenating Old Paradigms 2.2 Bringing in New Paradigms 2.3 Discovering Organizational Mechanics 2.4 To Sum UpPart 2. IOs as Complex Organizations3 Homogenization and Hegemonization 3.1 Diversity 3.2 Similarity 3.3 To Sum Up4 Centralization and Decentralization 4.1 Headquarters Matter! On the Importance of Being Central 4.2 Bottom Up, Top Down, or What? 4.3 To Sum Up10Part 3. A Predictive Model of IOs' Behaviour 5 Explanatory Factors and Drivers of Change 5.1 External and Internal Change5.2 Leadership, Management Styles, and Innovation 5.3 Organic and Cognitive Organizations 5.4 To Sum Up6 The Trade-off Between Resilience and Performance 6.1 What Are the Relevant Indicators of Success? 6.2 Towards New Standards of Performance6.3 To Sum Up7 Genesis and Expansion 7.1 Genesis: How It All Started 7.2 Drivers of Expansion 7.3 To Sum UpPart 4. From Competition to Cooperation 8 Too Big to Fail: From Expansion to Dissolution 8.1 Mandate Overlap 8.2 Survival Strategies 8.3 Death at the Crossroads 8.4 To Sum Up9 Coordination, Collaboration, and Cooperation: HowDifferent Really? 9.1 Partnership Models 9.2 All in the Family: The Rush Towards Coordination 9.3 Accommodating Strangers: Occasional Collaboration 9.4 Pooling Resources: Acceptance of Full Cooperation9.5 To Sum Up10 The Taming of the Shrew: Avoiding the Other 10.1 A Shakespearian Dilemma: To Coordinate or not to BeCoordinated? 10.2 The Great Fear: Side-lined, Shut Down, or Merged? 10.3 To Sum Up.11 From Clusters to Networks 11.1 How Clusters Give Birth to Complex Organized Systems 11.2 Meta-organizations and their Limits 11.3 From Meta-organizations to Networks 11.4 To Sum Up12 The Nature of Organizational Networks 12.1 How Much "Publicness" in International Organizations? 12.2 Going Hybrid 12.3 Interorganizational Networks 12.4 To Sum Up13 The Properties of Organizational Networks 13.1 From Transaction Costs to Coordination Costs 13.2 The Threshold Effect and the End of Politics 13.3 To Sum UpPart 5. How Likely is any Institutionalization of the World? 14 A Changing Structure 14.1 A Pivot Towards the Global South 14.2 The Coining of Fair Norms 14.3 The End of Securitization 14.4 To Sum Up15 Is Institutionalized Globalization Inevitable? 15.1 A Likely Future: Plurilateralism Rules the World 15.2 Unlikely Alternatives: New Despotism andNew Medievalism 15.3 Likable Options: Constitutional Adaptation 15.4 To Sum Up.16 Towards a World Government 16.1 Is Hobbes' Constant as Limiting as Light Speed? 16.2 Making Bull's Dream Come True?16.3 Is Wendt's Recognition Process Working? 16.4 Neither Micro nor Macro: A Mesocosmic World 16.5 Wrap up: From Warfare to Welfare and Back 17 Conclusion. What We Have Achieved and What Remains toBe Done17.1 Do Limitations Weaken the Explanatory Power of theNetwork Growth Model? 17.2 Do Success Stories Suffice to Explain InternationalOrganization and Organizations? 17.3 Beyond Research: Will this Book Be Helpful? Afterword Appendixes Appendix 1: Primary sources Appendix 2: Methodology Appendix 3: List of interviewsReference list Subject Index