International Organizations Under Pressure

Author : Klaus Dingwerth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192574914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Organizations under Pressure written by Klaus Dingwerth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In recent years, many of them have also become heavily politicized. In this book, we examine how the norms and values that underpin the evaluations of international organizations have changed over the past 50 years. Looking at five organizations in depth, we observe two major trends. Taken together, both trends make the legitimation of international organizations more challenging today. First, people-based legitimacy standards are on the rise: international organizations are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only what they do for their member states, but also for the people living in these states. Second, procedural legitimacy standards gain ground: international organizations are increasingly evaluated not only based on what they accomplish, but also based on how they arrive at decisions, manage themselves, or coordinate with other organizations in the field. In sum, the study thus documents how the list of expectations international organizations need to fulfil to count as 'legitimate' has expanded over time. The sources of this expansion are manifold. Among others, they include the politicization of expanded international authority and the rise of non-state actors as new audiences from which international organizations seek legitimacy.

Author : Chris van der Borgh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113731284X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies written by Chris van der Borgh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, international human rights organizations and think tanks have expressed a growing concern that the space of civil society organizations around the world is under pressure. This book examines the pressures experienced by NGOs in four partial democracies: Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Author : Bob Reinalda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134024053
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge History of International Organizations written by Bob Reinalda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 up to the present day, and provides the reader with nearly two centuries of world history seen from the perspective of international organizations. It covers the three main fields of international relations: security, economics and the humanitarian domain which often overlap in international organizations. As well as global and intercontinental organizations, the book also covers regional international organizations and international non-governmental organizations in all continents. The book progresses chronologically but also provides a thematic and geographical coherence so that related developments can be discussed together. A series of detailed tables, figures, charts and information boxes explain the chronologies, structures and relationships of international organizations. There are biographies, histories and analysis of hundreds of international organizations. This is an essential reference work with direct relevance to scholars in international relations, international political economy, international economics and business and security studies.

Author : Tana Johnson
Publisher : Transformations in Governance
ISBN 13 : 0198717792
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Progeny written by Tana Johnson and published by Transformations in Governance. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most studies focus on states as principals and international bureaucrats as agents, [the author] demonstrates that many international bureaucrats have mastered the art of insulating themselves from state control.

Author : Tine Hanrieder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198705832
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Organization in Time written by Tine Hanrieder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title investigates the effects of reform programmes on international organisations (IOs). Such reforms are often perceived as failing but they do nevertheless drive organisational change. The book argues that reforms trigger path dependent processes in IOs, yielding increasing returns to the winners of historical bargains. Path dependence explains why a seemingly dysfunctional organisational process, namely fragmentation, is hard to reverse but easy to reinforce through organisational reform.

Author : Megan Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009184180
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book IOM Unbound? written by Megan Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the obligations of the International Organization for Migration through contributions from experts in international law and international relations.

Author : Vincent Pouliot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009344986
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Policymaking written by Vincent Pouliot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the politics of global governance by looking at how global policymaking actually works. It provides a comprehensive theoretical and methodological framework which is systematically applied to the study of three global policies drawn from recent UN activities: the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the institutionalization of the Human Rights Council from 2005 onwards, and the ongoing promotion of the protection of civilians in peace operations. By unpacking the practices and the values that have prevailed in these three cases, the authors demonstrate how global policymaking forms a patchwork pervaded by improvisation and social conflict. They also show how global governance embodies a particular vision of the common good at the expense of alternative perspectives. The book will appeal to students and scholars of global governance, international organizations and global policy studies.

Author : Nitsan Chorev
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801463920
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Health Organization between North and South written by Nitsan Chorev and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of wealthy nations, who fund the organization, with the demands of poorer member countries, who hold the majority of votes. In The World Health Organization between North and South, Nitsan Chorev shows how the WHO bureaucracy has succeeded not only in avoiding having its agenda co-opted by either coalition of member states but also in reaching a consensus that fit the bureaucracy's own principles and interests. Chorev assesses the response of the WHO bureaucracy to member-state pressure in two particularly contentious moments: when during the 1970s and early 1980s developing countries forcefully called for a more equal international economic order, and when in the 1990s the United States and other wealthy countries demanded international organizations adopt neoliberal economic reforms. In analyzing these two periods, Chorev demonstrates how strategic maneuvering made it possible for a vulnerable bureaucracy to preserve a relatively autonomous agenda, promote a consistent set of values, and protect its interests in the face of challenges from developing and developed countries alike.

Author : League of Nations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of Information on the Work of International Organizations written by League of Nations and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information concerning congresses held since Apr. 1922.

Author : John Edward Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Republic Under Pressure written by John Edward Spence and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs." Bibliographical footnotes.