States' interests, bureaucratisation, and interactions with the environment represent a continuous test for international organisations' potentials and limitations to pursue their goals and policies. International organisations have been created in a certain period and (political) context, which, of course, may change over time. If international organisations are unable to react on changes in the environment, their functionality may be under threat. By referring to concrete cases, the article points to various ways and means with which international organisations succeed - or fail - to justify their existence.
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