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The limits of expertise in international organizations 国际组织专业知识的局限性

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-10-19 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09649-z

Matt Malis, B. Peter Rosendorff, Alastair Smith

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Deliberating international politics: Listening and consensus-orientation in the United Nations Security Council 探讨国际政治：联合国安理会的倾听与共识导向

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-10-06 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09650-6

Gisela Hirschmann,Monika Heupel,Evgenija Kröker

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Does bilateral aid work better through multilateral channels? Evidence from the GODAD database 多边渠道的双边援助效果更好吗？GODAD数据库的证据

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09645-3

Bernhard Reinsberg

{"title":"Does bilateral aid work better through multilateral channels? Evidence from the GODAD database","authors":"Bernhard Reinsberg","doi":"10.1007/s11558-026-09645-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-026-09645-3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How does the choice of aid modality influence development effectiveness? While scholars have extensively studied the drivers of aid delegation, the relative effectiveness of different modalities remains under-theorized. I develop a theory of aid effectiveness rooted in the interplay of donor motives, recipient incentives, and principal−agent dynamics. I argue that earmarked aid to international organizations (IOs) will succeed in achieving specific sectoral outcomes by leveraging IO capacity to constrain recipient slack, though its rigid mandates and high transaction costs will limit its broader development impact. Conversely, bilateral aid—which often serves donor particularistic interests and grants recipients more autonomy—is generally ineffective, except when political competition disciplines recipients to prioritize long-term gains. To test these propositions, I utilize the GODAD database to analyze geolocated aid projects from 19 Western donors across 1,753 subnational regions from 1990 to 2024. Using two-step counterfactual difference-in-differences estimators, I examine the impact of different funding types on household wealth, child mortality, and governance. The findings reveal that earmarked aid is effective for specific goals, such as health aid reducing child mortality, whereas the success of governance aid depends on low baseline development levels. In contrast, bilateral aid is frequently ineffective or counterproductive, correlating with increased mortality and decreased state capacity. Sectoral targeting has limited effects, positively affecting only household wealth creation. These results highlight how the institutional design of aid delivery mediates the tension between donor control and recipient agency, offering critical implications for the study of multilateral delegation and aid effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":75182,"journal":{"name":"The review of international organizations","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diffusion of environmental treaty dynamism: EU and US influences 环境条约动力的扩散：欧盟和美国的影响

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09642-6

Tobias Böhmelt

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Randall W. Stone. 2026. Multinational Order: US Firms and International Organization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 兰德尔·w·斯通。跨国秩序：美国公司与国际组织（剑桥：剑桥大学出版社）

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09648-0

J. Lawrence Broz

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Gender, descriptive representation, and the public legitimacy of international organizations 性别、描述性代表和国际组织的公共合法性

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09646-2

Tyler Girard,Andrea Lawlor

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Gatekeepers of the market? IMF surveillance and sovereign access to global finance 市场的看门人？国际货币基金组织的监督和主权国家对全球金融的准入

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09641-7

Pablo Aguilar Pérez

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The conditional effect of autocratization: How regime change shapes international preferences in the Universal Periodic Review 独裁的条件效应：政权更迭如何影响普遍定期审议中的国际偏好

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09644-4

Maria Josepha Debre,Thomas Sommerer

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Signaling for aid? Effects of signing democracy-related provisions in preferential trade agreements 求救信号？在优惠贸易协定中签署民主相关条款的影响

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09638-2

Marine Roux

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Sarah Sunn Bush and Jennifer Hadden. 2025. Crowded Out: The Competitive Landscape of Contemporary International NGOs. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 莎拉·孙·布什和詹妮弗·哈登。排挤：当代国际非政府组织的竞争格局。（剑桥：剑桥大学出版社）

The review of international organizations Pub Date : 2026-09-08 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-026-09647-1

Thomas Davies

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