Bøger af Volker Rittberger

International organizations such as the UN, EU andIMF play an increasingly important role in international politics. Fully revised and updated,this broad-ranging text provides a systematic theoretical and empirical introduction to the structure, policies and performance of international organizations.

The realists display a positivistic standpoint: taking the inter- national system and its premise, power politics, as unalterable givens, they inquire into the feasibility of international organization under these circumstances.