Institutional Complexes and Interinstitutional Interaction

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Project data

Title
Institutional Complexes and Interinstitutional Interaction
 
Project leader
 
Department
 
Start date
01-01-2002
 
End date
31-12-2025
 
potential profile area
Actions of and in Organisations
 
Existing situation
Ongoing
 

Project description

Description
International governance institutions do not exist in isolation from each other. Frequently, they overlap both in regard to their membership and their respective issue-area. Thus, governance effects emerge from institutional complexes made up of a number of separately established institutions. Moreover, international institutions affect each others’ normative development and performance. Institutional fragmentation and the increasing institutional density within the international system accelerate interaction among institutions.

The project on institutional complexes was driven by two objectives.

First, a number of causal mechanisms were to be identified that were capable of explaining how one international institution can affect another international institution.

Secondly, intstitutional complexes were to be examined as systems of institutions that produce, over time, systemic effects. Here, the project was particularly concerned with the division of labour among the elemental institutions.
 
Area of research
International Relations