Abstract
How international organisations relate to each other and interact is one of the less well-known aspects of the organisations. Mostly, international organisations are known and studied one by one, not together. The book starts by claiming that understanding their relations is essential for a full understanding of the nature, functioning and development of international organisations. Interaction between them is consequential and there is a reason for it. How to make these visible? How to study the causes and consequences of interaction—what tools are there to use? This chapter looks at the toolbox at hand and finds out that the concept of power is key to helping to understand these relations.
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Ojanen, H. (2018). Understanding Inter-organisational Relations: Substance and Toolbox. In: The EU's Power in Inter-Organisational Relations. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40908-9_1
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