%0 Journal Article 
%A Sobrino Heredia, José Manuel
%T The Loss of Institutionality in International Organizations, and their Decline in the Contemporary International Society
%D 2021
%@ 2341-0868
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24886
%X 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.
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