Revisiting Craig Murphy's Theory of International Organizations under the Absolutist States System: Public International Unions

• In Event: International Organizations and Changing World Orders

Brief Overview

This paper reassesses the theory of the origins of inter-governmental organizations (IGOs) advanced by Craig Murphy (1994) by resituating Murphy's first historical phase of the IGOs in context of Benno Teschke's (2003) theory of the states system.

Author

• Tomohisa Hattori, The City University of New York (Lehman College and the Graduate Center)