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… Published with license by Koninklijke Brill nv | doi: 10.1163/15723747-20010005 © Jan Klabbers, 2023 | ISSN: 1572-3739 (print) 1572-3747 (online) This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license. Towards a Political Economy of International Organizations Law Jan Klabbers* Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland … between organs of international organizations or such phenomena as delegation of powers. To the limited extent these issues are addressed in the literature, they are addressed in terms of constitutional theory, in terms of separation of powers or checks and balances, and such is perfectly under- standable. Viewing international organizations merely as manifestations of ‘the international’ offers no intellectual resources for thinking about relations between the plenary and executive bodies of … bowling club), serving food to the poor (the local soup kitchen), monop- olising the use of violence (the state) or securing global health (the World Health Organization). Without a goal, a telos, assemblies of people remain ran- dom collections, like shoppers in a mall. There can probably be random groups with a temporary telos (spectators at a football match, e.g.), but an organiza- tion without a telos borders on the unthinkable.52 It follows, that the notion of function remains important for …