The importance of legitimacy is widely recognised in the literature on international and regional organizations, not least for compliance with their decisions.

The UN is able to recognize key global challenges, but beset by difficulties in trying to resolve them. In this, it represents the current global political bala

International organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politic

The end of the Cold War is only one in a series of events that have radically modified the operational environment of international organizations since their es

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