Gabrielle Marceau (Univ. of Geneva - Law) &
Henner Gött (German Federal Chancellery) have published
International Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is
here. Here's the abstract:
How do adaptations and changes in international organizations (IOs) come about? How do IOs respond to crises and unforeseen needs of their members? What role do the secretariats and their heads play in doing so? This volume describes how IOs and their secretariats and executive heads launch and implement innovative activities—initiatives—and adapt to respond to crises, members’ demands, internal impulses, or interactions with the outside world. It brings together distinguished scholars and experienced practitioners of IOs to showcase and investigate IOs’ adaptive capacity, their achievements, and limitations. Through case studies and conceptual frameworks, the book explores a largely uncharted world of IO evolution in which international secretariats contribute importantly to adapting the role of IOs. The volume brings to light the mechanisms used by IOs to adapt to what were, on each occasion, new challenges to their efforts to assist and respond to unprecedented needs of members faced with contemporary realities.
