IO's growth crisis, networking, and the constitution of World order
Résumé
In recent years International Organization of all sorts grew, they consolidated their institutional bases, and constitutionalized the rights of their individual or corporate stakeholders. Therefore, a reordering of the world centred on organizations rather than states now looks possible. IOs' interactions are expanding at a quick pace, to such an extent that growth of unexpected amplitude can hamper the division of labour between international organizations. In successfully addressing collaborative issues some IOs contribute to the institutionalization of the world - a sort of " iron law " of IR: they benefit from several transfers of competencies from either citizens or governments, conditioned on sufficient guarantees pledged to the delegators by the delegates, i.e. empowered associations (NGOs) or institutions (IGOs). Therefore, networks are built up and tend to become denser meta-networks. Beyond current explanations of IOs empowerment or, to the opposite, IOs predicament, managers discretely become enforcers and experts are converted into leading decision-makers achieving sophisticated tradeoffs with their stakeholders at the highest levels of politics.