标题：
The Genesis, History, and Functioning of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC): A Formal Institutional Analysis
作者：
Gokhan Bacik
来源：
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 31:4, 594-614, DOI: 10.1080/13602004.2011.630864
摘要：
This article aims to analyze the functioning and efficacy of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) by applying a formal-institutional method. This approach attends to the inner mechanism of an organization, in preference to the“milieu” method, that examines an organization with reference to its members’capacities and other conditions. Thus, analytical focus is on the formal edifices of an organization: its charters, voting procedures, and committee structures. This article embeds the formal/institutional method with the thesis that the absence from the OIC’s structure of (i) an informed and costly membership requirement and (ii) a rule-enforcing body, accounts for its current functionality problems. To substantiate this argument, the paper compares the OIC with some other inter
national inter-governmental organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations. The conclusion follows that any reform plan should acknowledge that the extant membership rules are a structural problem and the absence of enforce able regulations are a functional problem for the OIC. The analysis also suggests that intra-OIC formations are necessary in order to stimulate the organization’s performance and effectiveness.