Part I. Thinking International Organisations Differently: 1. Seeing international organisations differently Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín; 2. Critical theory and international organisations: the need for an integrated approach B. S. Chimni; 3. Inter-disciplinarity and the law of international organizations Jan Klabbers; Part II.
Ways of Seeing International Institutions: Expertise, Authority, & Knowledge Production: 4. Studying the assembling of expertise in global governance Annabelle Littoz-Monnet; 5. Experts, practices, power: the work of international criminal court reform Richard Clements; 6. Drawing the contours of hidden hunger as an object of governance Juanita Uribe; Structures, Spaces, & Jurisdictions: 7. The puzzle of freedom: structure and agency in international adjudication Tommaso Soave; 8. Reassembling transnational legal conflicts across global institutions: ethnographic perspectives on claims of authority over the Mediterranean Sea Kiri Santer; 9. Placeholders: an archival journey into the interim histories of international organisations Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín; People, Practices, & Performance: 10.
The micro-politics of international commissions: the case of telegraphic standards Jan Eijking; 11. Keeping up standards for a better world: anthropological alternatives to the study of international organisations Miia Halme-Tuomisaari; 12. 'The critic is not the one who debunks, but the one who assembles': on professional performances and material practices Dimitri Van Den Meerssche; Capital, Class, & Political Economy: 13. Laissez faire, state capitalism, and the making of international organizations: the dynamics of a struggle Negar Mansouri; 14. Deconstructing 'resilience talk' in global governance: toward a critical political economy approach A. Claire Cutler; 15. A white knight in shining armor? Ethiopia, international organisations, and the global colour line Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín; Part III.
Conclusion: 16: Examining elephants in the dark Guy Fiti Sinclair.