@misc{10498/24886, year = {2021}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24886}, abstract = {Never before have international organisations (IOs) been as numerous or as questioned as they are today. One reason for this, I believe, is the shift away from institutionalisation, which renders them inoperative and, thus, irrelevant. This decline in the institutional component of IOs has caused – and continues to cause – many of them to become empty shells with acronyms. Their bodies are purely testimonial and are supplanted in decision-making by their member states, which prefer informal agreement mechanisms that can be pursued outside or in parallel to the institutional procedures provided for in the IO’s constitutive treaty.}, publisher = {UCA}, title = {The Loss of Institutionality in International Organizations, and their Decline in the Contemporary International Society}, doi = {10.25267/Paix_secur_int.2021.i9.02}, author = {Sobrino Heredia, José Manuel}, }