International Organizations in Global Social Governance, 1st ed. 2021 Global Dynamics of Social Policy Series

International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies.

This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding of IOs in global social governance. It provides studies on a variety of social policy fields in which different, but also the same, IOs operate.

The chapters shed light on IO involvement in a particular social policy field by describing the population of participating IOs; exploring how a particular global social policy field is constituted as a whole, and which dominant IOs set the trends. The contributors also examine the discourse within, and between, these IOs on the respective social policies. As such, this first-of-its kind book contributes to research on social policy and international relations, both in terms of theoretical substantiation and empirical scope.

Part I Introduction

1 The Architecture of Arguments in Global Social Governance: Examining Populations and Discourses of International Organizations in Social Policies

Part II Labor and Migration

2 International Organizations’ Involvement in Youth Unemployment as a Global Policy Field, and the Global Financial Crisis

4 International Organizations, Care and Migration: The Case of Migrant Health Care Workers

5 International Organizations and the Global Social Governance of Pensions

Part III Family and Education

7 Global Discourses, Regional Framings and Individual Showcasing: Analyzing the World of Education IOs

8 IOs’ Role in Global Social Governance: Family Policy

9 Disability as a ‘New’ Global Social Theme: The Role of International Organizations in an Expanding Global Policy Field

10 Characterizing Global Health Governance by International Organizations: Is There an Ante- and

Post-COVID-19 Architecture?

11 IOs and Climate Change: Toward Global Eco-Social Policy

12 Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental

Security

Part V Conclusion

14 International Organizations and the Architecture of Arguments in Global Social Governance

Analyses specific social policy fields and the roles, characteristics or functions of single IOs and IOs within their organizational contexts

Compares IO populations across different social policy fields

Allows readers to better understand the discourses of IOs and how they influence national policies and the international community by means of soft governance