Miles Kahler Quoted On New Book on International Organizations
Behind the Scenes at the International Monetary Fund
03/21/2011
Susan Hagen,
University of Rochester
How do international organizations make the rules that run the global economy?
On Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. Randall Stone, director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and professor of political science at the University of Rochester, will take a look behind the scenes at the International Monetary Fund to reveal how powerful countries wield influence far beyond their formal voting power.
Drawing from the insights and research in his new book Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Stone shows how international organizations are governed by two contradictory sets of rules: formal ones, based on voting and legal procedures, and informal processes, which allow the most powerful countries to exert additional influence behind closed doors when the stakes are high.
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Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at IR/PS and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego. His principal areas of research are international relations and international political economy, particularly international institutions and global governance, Asian regional institutions, the evolution of the nation-state, and the political economy of international finance.
