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The ori­gin of IGOs can be traced way back from the Con­gress of Vi­enna of 1814–1815, which was an in­ter­na­tional diplo­matic con­fer­ence to re­con­sti­tute the Eu­ro­pean po­lit­i­cal order after the down­fall of the French Em­peror Napoleon.States then be­came the main de­ci­sion mak­ers who pre­ferred to main­tain their sov­er­eignty as of 1...

Held and Mc­Grew counted thou­sands of IGOs world­wide in 2002 and this num­ber con­tin­ues to rise. This may be at­trib­uted to glob­al­iza­tion, which in­creases and en­cour­ages the co-op­er­a­tion among and within states and which has also pro­vided eas­ier means for IGO growth as a re­sult of in­creased in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions. This is se...

There are sev­eral dif­fer­ent rea­sons a state may choose mem­ber­ship in an in­ter­gov­ern­men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tion. But there are also rea­sons mem­ber­ship may be re­jected. Rea­sons for par­tic­i­pa­tion: 1. Economic rewards: In the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), membership in the free trade agreement benefits the par...

In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tions are pro­vided with priv­i­leges and im­mu­ni­ties that are in­tended to en­sure their in­de­pen­dent and ef­fec­tive func­tion­ing. They are spec­i­fied in the treaties that give rise to the or­ga­ni­za­tion (such as the Con­ven­tion on the Priv­i­leges and Im­mu­ni­ties of the United Na­tions and the Agree­...