IGO Network Analysis
IGO network analysis treats the web of states' memberships in intergovernmental organizations as a network and studies its structure and consequences. Using membership data such as the Correlates of War IGO dataset (Pevehouse, Nordstrom, and Warnke 2004), it represents which states belong to which organizations as an affiliation network, projects it into a state-to-state graph of shared memberships, and analyzes how organizational ties bind states together — measuring integration into global governance, detecting institutional blocs, and testing whether shared IGO membership shapes outcomes like trade and conflict.
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- Pevehouse, J. C., Nordstrom, T., & Warnke, K. (2004). The Correlates of War 2 international governmental organizations data version 2.0. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 21(2), 101–119. DOI: 10.1080/07388940490463933 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Network Analysis of Intergovernmental Organization Memberships. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/international-relations/igo-network-analysis
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