Why do some international institutions perform better than others? 

Join CLEAR's Dr. William Resh in conversation with Dr. Ranjit Lall (Oxford) about his book, Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance. 

Making International Institutions Work proposes a new theory of institutional performance and tests it using a diverse array of sources and data.

Contrary to the stereotype of international institutions as ineffective ‘runaway bureaucracies,’ it is individual countries with their own narrow political interests that are the greatest threat to successful institutional performance. Only when institutions possess a high degree of policy autonomy vis-à-vis governments, which emerges when they forge strong alliances with nonstate actors and exercise discreet governance tasks, are they likely to consistently work