Stasis and change in the IMF and World Bank: international context and institutional dynamics

Joseph, James W.

doi:10.1016/s0362-3319(99)00058-0

The Social Science Journal

2000

DOI: 10.1016/s0362-3319(99)00058-0

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Stasis and change in the IMF and World Bank: international context and institutional dynamics

James W. Joseph

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“…Among the central power considerations of IGO studies are the following: Baldwin, 1993;Mearsheimer, 1994/95;Murphy, 1994;Cox, 1996;Barnett and Finnemore, 1999;Joseph, 2000;Sanders, 2002. Are the creation, maintenance, change and decline of IGOs an expression of changing social forces? To what extent are IGO mandates, processes and output a function of the power relationships among member states?…”

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In this article I draw on the later work of Michel Foucault to elaborate a governmentality framework for the study of international governmental organizations (IGOs). The main ‘value added’ of the proposed framework is that it brings into focus the micro-domain of power relations, thereby highlighting what mainline IGO studies fail to thematize. IGOs exercise a molecular form of power that evades and undermines the material, juridical and diplomatic limitations on their influence. They are important sites in the non-sovereign, microphysical workings of power that shape territorialized populations in unspectacular ways. In short, I argue that our understanding of IGOs remains incomplete if we do not pay attention to the effects of domination generated by their everyday governance tasks and good works. I develop this argument through a brief engagement with an innovative strand of IGO studies: research on international socialization, which is empirically illustrated through a brief exploration of the induction by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe of post-socialist countries into its embryonic security community.

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Alleviating poverty through microfinance: Village banking outcomes in Central America

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International Expert Organizations and Policy Adoption

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Microfinance as a development policy tool has enjoyed an increasing popularity in the last few years. The United Nations declared 2005 as the international year of microcredit. Since Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance is once more under the spotlight. The prominence of development programs is mainly promoted by powerful international organizations like the World Bank. This article examines the World Bank's World Development Reports over time to demonstrate how the Bank became interested in, interpreted, and framed microfinance in accordance with its general background assumptions on poverty and development. The neoliberal interpretation by the Bank in the 1990s of notions such as social capital and gender is crucial for understanding its adoption of microfinance.

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Stasis and change in the IMF and World Bank: international context and institutional dynamics

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