TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dijkstra, Hylke
A1  - Debre, Maria Josepha
A1  - Heinkelmann-Wild, Tim
T1  - Governance abhors a vacuum
T2  - The British journal of politics & international relations
N2  - International organisations have become increasingly contested resulting in worries about their decline and termination. While international organisation termination is indeed a regular event in international relations, this article shows that other institutions carry the legacy of terminated international organisations. We develop the novel concept of international organisation afterlife and suggest indicators to systematically assess it. Our analysis of 26 major terminated international organisations reveals legal-institutional and asset continuity in 21 cases. To further illustrate this point, the article zooms in on the afterlife of the International Institute of Agriculture in the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Refugee Organization in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Western European Union in the European Union. In these three cases, international organisation afterlife inspired and structured the design of their successor institutions. While specific international organisations might be terminated, international cooperation therefore often lives on in other institutions.
KW  - death
KW  - institutional theory
KW  - international organisations
KW  - termination
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63469
SN  - 1369-1481
SN  - 1467-856X
PB  - Sage
CY  - London
ER  -