International organizations and small states : participation, legitimacy and vulnerability / Jack Corbett, Xu Yi-chong and Patrick Weller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Does the performance of vulnerability produce real benefits for small states? -- SIDS as norm entrepreneurs -- Do throughputs increase the legitimacy of IOs? -- Canaries in the global governance coal mine -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover

Active participation -- Throughput legitimacy and the right to development -- Promoting norms and principles -- Upholding rules, conventions, and traditions -- Facilitating mutual assistance and alliances -- Conclusion -- 6 Expanding the Agenda at the WHO and the WIPO -- Throughput legitimacy and serving the SIDS -- Promoting norms and principles -- Upholding rules, conventions, and traditions -- Facilitating mutual assistance and alliances -- New vulnerabilities and small states -- Rhetorical action -- Collaboration -- Active participation -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion

Rhetorical action -- Collaboration -- Active participation -- Conclusion -- Part II Interactions -- 4 Differentiated Vulnerabilities, Climate Change, and the UN Agencies -- Climate vulnerability and the rise of the SIDS -- Rhetorical action -- Collaboration -- Active participation -- Throughput legitimacy and the participation of small members -- Promoting norms and principles -- Upholding rules, conventions, and traditions -- Facilitating mutual assistance and cooperation -- Conclusion -- 5 Differentiated Development in the IMF, the WBG, and the WTO -- Rhetorical action -- Collaboration

2 Why Do IOs Encourage the Participation of Small States? -- IOs, membership, and throughput legitimacy -- The evolution of legitimation practices -- Promoting norms and principles -- Upholding rules, conventions, and traditions -- Groupings -- Decision-making -- Leadership elections -- Facilitating mutual assistance and cooperation -- Larger states -- The secretariat -- NGOs -- Conclusion -- 3 Why Do Small States Engage with IOs? -- Sovereign recognition -- Economic development and technical assistance -- Maintaining a permissive liberal order -- The competent performance of vulnerability

Front Cover -- International Organizations and Small States: Participation, Legitimacy and Vulnerability -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Tables -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Our contribution: a tale of two dilemmas -- The small states' dilemma: the disproportionate costs of statehood -- Approach, cases, data, and analysis -- Approach: explaining how these two dilemmas interact -- Cases: which small states and which IOs? -- Sources and data -- Analysis -- Structure of the book -- Part I Actors

This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in International Organizations (IOs). It highlights the challenges created by widened participation in IOs and develops a model of the dilemmas that both IOs and small states face as the norms of sovereign equality and the right to develop coincide.

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