Beyond Borders: Evaluating The Impact Of International Organizations In A Globalized Era
- IJLLR Journal
- Nov 15, 2025
- 1 min read
Vrinda Gupta, USLLS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
ABSTRACT
The increasing velocity of globalization has altered the global juristic discourse as well as political arena by elevating the international organizations to the pinnacle of global governance. International organizations like the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and World Health Organization are now at the helm of promoting cooperation, as well as peace and seeking ways of solving transnational challenges like climate change, pandemics and economic instabilities. Nevertheless, these bodies have been being criticized anew because of structural disparities, absence of inclusiveness, and hegemony of developed countries despite their formulated universality.
This study critically analyses the role of the international organizations in ensuring equity and inclusiveness between the developed and developing countries and balancing the principle of state sovereignty and the application of international norms. The work has a doctrinal and analytical approach with the use of collegial tools like charters, treaties, and resolutions, as well as secondary tools such as scholarly literature and institutional reports.
The article suggests that, in as much as international organizations are crucial in facilitating dialogue and collaboration, they remain systemic in that they are products of power hierarchies in the world. The monopoly of power and decision-making, the conditional character of financial support, as well as the biased application of international standards, tend to destabilize the principles of sovereign equality and participatory governance. This paper concludes that to turn these institutions into indeed inclusive mechanisms of global governance, so-called meaningful reform will be needed, in form of democratization of representation, improved transparency, and equal policy frameworks.
