TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beigbeder,Yves
AU  - Dijkzeul,Dennis
AU  - Evenson,Kristie
AU  - Finger,Matthias
AU  - Fomerand,Jacques
AU  - Gordenker,Leon
AU  - Hüfner,Klaus
AU  - Kappeler,Dietrich
AU  - Magarinos-Ruchat,Bérangère
AU  - Salomons,Dirk
AU  - Smillie,Ian
AU  - Smith,Dennis
AU  - Waal,Alex de
TI  - Rethinking International Organizations: Pathology and Promise 
SN  - 9781789203899
AV  - JZ4839 .R484 2006
U1  - 341.2 21
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - International agencies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; List of Tables --; Preface --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction: Rethinking International Organizations --; Part I Decision Making with States --; Introduction --; 1. Financing the United Nations: The Role of the United States --; 2. Diplomacy: Its Place in the Multilateral World Dietrich Kappeler --; 3. The Politics of Norm Setting at the United Nations: The Case of Sustainable Human Development --; Part II Decision Making in International Organizations --; Introduction --; 4. Good Intentions to Naught: The Pathology of Human Resources Management at the United Nations --; 5. The Transformation of International Public Organizations: The Case of UNCTAD --; 6. Fraud, Corruption, and United Nations Culture --; PART III Implementation --; Introduction --; 7. Programs and the Problems of Participation --; 8. Human Rights, Institutional Wrongs --; 9. Managing CIVPOL: The Potential of Performance Management in International Public Services --; 10. Sustainable Civil Society or Service Delivery Agencies? The Evolution of Non-governmental Organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina --; PART IV Toward Theory --; Introduction --; 11. Cures and Conclusions --; Notes on Contributors --; Authors Index --; Keywords Index; restricted access
N2  - The management of international organizations is attracting growing attention. Most of this attention is highly critical of both the UN system and International NGOs. Sometimes, this criticism lacks depth or reflects insufficient understanding of these organizations, or is based on narrow, and sometimes biased, internal political concerns of a particular country. International relations theory has insufficiently studied the type of linkages that these organizations provide between international decision-making and Northern fundraising on the one hand, and practical action in the South on the other. As a result, current theory too rarely focuses on the inner functioning of these organizations and is unable to explain the deficiencies and negative outcomes of their work. While the authors identify and describe the pathologies of international organizations in, for example, international diplomacy, fundraising, and implementation, they also stress positive elements, such as their intermediary role. The latter, in particular, could form the basis of more efficient and effective policies, in addition to other recent trends, also described in this volume, that hold hope for a stronger functioning of these organizations in the future. This book presents a long overdue empirical and theoretical overview of criticism on and cures for these organizations. It provides a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to the management of international organizations
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