Organizing the in-Between: The Population Dynamics of Network-Weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network
研究了1815-2000年间政府间组织（IGOs）的种群动态，发现IGO的成立与失败取决于国家间关系的便利性和价值，网络编织组织在连接相近或冲突的参与者时更易运作，这解释了小世界网络结构的高聚类和短路径特征。
This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate networks that influenced global economic relations, peace, and democracy in the 1815–2000 period shows that IGO founding and failure depends on the ease and value of specific interstate relations. Results indicate that network-weaving organizations are easier to operate when they encompass proximate and similar actors, yet they also reap rewards for bringing together otherwise disconnected actors, in particular, actors with conflicts. Combined, these organizational processes can account for the high clustering and short-path distance between nodes that are characteristic of the endemic small-world network structure. Furthermore, the study shows that the concepts of legitimacy and competition can be applied to identify particular spaces in the network of bilateral relations that are more or less hospitable for IGOs.