Vanished Institutions: The Life and Death of Europe's International Organisations – Introduction

Patel, Kiran Klaus und Weisbrode, Kenneth (2025): Vanished Institutions: The Life and Death of Europe's International Organisations – Introduction. In: Journal of Modern European History, Bd. 23, Nr. 2: S. 116-128

Abstract

Why do international organisations die? Their causes of death deserve attention and analysis. Europe in the 20th century with its plenitude of international organisations provides a rich ground for studying why some of them died, why some lived, why some were resurrected from near-death and why some survive as institutional shells, or zombies. The introduction to this special issue summarises the cases that follow in order to discern a pattern or logic of institutional death in modern European history. A pattern is elusive because causal and conditional factors are almost impossible to separate in cases of institutional death. Yet they show that, in contrast to state collapse, international organisations more often die from without – that is, for external, contextual reasons – than from within. However powerful some external factors, such as war, can be, institutional death is rarely predetermined. In one form or another international organisations possess a strong will to live.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 101096005
• EU-Projekte: Horizon Europe > ERC Grants > ERC Advanced Grant
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar > Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 940 Geschichte Europas
• ISSN: 2631-9764
• Sprache: Englisch