Joint IO Statement on the Flu (The Seeds of World Government?)

Joint IO Statement on the Flu (The Seeds of World Government?)

Steve Charnovitz has this interesting post at the IELP Blog about a joint statement on the swine A(H1N1) flu virus issued by the FAO, WHO, WTO, and OIE (extra credit to those of you already on to the last one: the World Organization for Animal Health).  Steve quite plausibly challenges the WTO’s authority to make this kind of pronouncement as an example of institutional “mission creep.”.

My question: what are the modalities of coordination among these IOs?  I assume there are standing committees and the like.  We hear a lot about fragmentation among IOs; what about cooperation?  Perhaps this breed of transnational network will end up being more important than the intergovernmental one.

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