Laura Zamudio-González gained her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Universidad Iberoamericana (2006). She has served as Chair of the International Relations Department at the same university, where she is currently a full professor.David Arellano-Gault gained his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver (1998). He is a Professor at the PublicAdministration Department at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics) in Mexico City.

• Introduction: International organizations, between international relations and organizational theory.- Chapter 1. Organizations from the standpoint of international relations: concerns of agency, autonomy, and accountability.- Chapter 2: Organizations as Systems: IOs adapting to systemic effects and the impossibility of full control.- Chapter 3. Organizations as structured games of power and conflict: IOs and the end of bureaucratic pathologies.- Chapter 4. Organizations as structured games of power and conflict: IOs and the end of bureaucratic pathologies.- Chapter 5. Organizations and institutions: IOs decisions, adjustments, and transformation within the context of the technical-political discourse in the international arena.- Conclusions. IOs as organizations: successful collaboration and cross-pollination between IR and OT.

Laura Zamudio-González gained her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Universidad Iberoamericana (2006). She has served as Chair of the International Relations Department at the same university, where she is currently a full professor.David Arellano-Gault gained his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver (1998). He is a Professor at the PublicAdministration Department at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics) in Mexico City.

• Introduction: International organizations, between international relations and organizational theory.- Chapter 1. Organizations from the standpoint of international relations: concerns of agency, autonomy, and accountability.- Chapter 2: Organizations as Systems: IOs adapting to systemic effects and the impossibility of full control.- Chapter 3. Organizations as structured games of power and conflict: IOs and the end of bureaucratic pathologies.- Chapter 4. Organizations as structured games of power and conflict: IOs and the end of bureaucratic pathologies.- Chapter 5. Organizations and institutions: IOs decisions, adjustments, and transformation within the context of the technical-political discourse in the international arena.- Conclusions. IOs as organizations: successful collaboration and cross-pollination between IR and OT.